rising/reddit-malaysia-rising-2023-12-31T04:04:18.926886.jsonl

{"title": "I've done it", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18udg6z/ive_done_it/", "num_comment": 95, "flairlabel": ["Satire"], "header": "", "comments": [["Which one is you?", "Glad someone is asking the hard questions.", "Yeah that mathatir cosplay is really convincing", "lol", "sial can someone get this oldfart OP away from the coser?", "probably the girl"], ["He's like \"Adakah ini hasil wawasan 2020 aku\"", "dasar pandang ke timur gone right"], ["Watch out, he's going to sugma ur life force out", "Not gonna work, bro", "What is sugma? Is it a new malay slang?", "Sugma kacang, adik kecil\nGottem", "Another way to say \"suck my\""], ["<image>\nYou can tell how disappointed he is to our generation \ud83d\ude02", "Same energy", "\ud83d\ude02"], ["I didn't know Tun M is a fellow redditor."], ["DASAR PANDANG TIMUR IS RILLL"], ["Damn Tun M finally got a chance to take a picture with cosplayer"], ["Mahatir is having that Oppenheimer's regret look for the unprecedented effect of his 'Dasar Pandang Timur' policy.", "Hahahahahhaha this is a deep track sejarah"], ["Atok don't look impress in the first pic"], ["wow the cosplay is dope", "Very convincing indeed. Especially the wrinkles. Must have used up a lot of modelling Clay!", "Yeah that cosplay looks sexy hot!..\nAnd also haramboi costume looks cool too.", "Iirc that's a dude BTW \ud83d\udc80", "Obviously , its mahathir lol .", "", "Who is she cosplaying?", "some old and experienced politicians by the look of it idk"], ["Tun got same energy"], ["\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udc80"], ["Based siak, wtf..."], ["Lmaooo that's insane"], ["Easily post of the year"], ["Are you a boy or a girl? Because looking at the picture I cannot tell /s", "???\ud83e\udd21", "Yeah they should. I didn\u2019t disagree. But that\u2019s not what the entirety of lgbt represents. We\u2019re not \u2018lost generations\u2019. We are just more capable of expressing ourselves freely and don\u2019t have an ego as fragile as you. We know who we are. We know who we love. No one is \u2018forcing it down your throat\u2019. You see it on social media? Then don\u2019t use social media if ur that bothered. Simple enough. Don\u2019t criticise things that you don\u2019t know anything of and stick to living your pathetic old life to the fullest instead of being a hater over things that doesn\u2019t even concern you. You\u2019re a straight cisman. Good for you. Go lick a pussy or something. No one\u2019s asking you to cut your dick off and put on a dress. Your time is almost up anyways. Cheers.", "...that person did not say they are non-binary or trans?", "Imagine thinking that masculinity is so fragile that wearing a skirt can erase it", "I passed the entrance exam for a Japanese government uni in a STEM subject and have been able to pay off my tuition with my own part time job money for 3 semesters now, I think I'm doing quite well but eh \ud83d\ude0a", "You did not refute the point I brought up- that it is absurd to think that wearing a skirt makes a man any less of a man- and then claimed I lost. I explained how I don't think I did. I believe we are perfectly on point.\nWearing a skirt does not make a man any less of a man. The act of wearing a skirt and not believing in gender norms are not markers of incapablity, inability to succeed in modern life or lack of grit- that is the point I wanted to make. Men have worn skirt like clothes and paid attention to their appearances throughout history and across cultures- pants did not exist in Muhammad's age, nor in Jesus or in Buddha's, in Confucius's or Marcus Aurelius' or in the eras of emperors and kings... Are you going to argue that these people were not men?\nWhy are you hung up on another person's behavior?", "Why are you hung up on another person's behavior?\nProbably having post nut clarity after fapping to a man in a skirt.", "Wtf are you saying man", "omg i thought this was a girl the whole time", "No, he's a regular cosplayer in r/bolehland.", "Comments removed due to being in breach of reddiquette, specifically because it contained personal attack, insult, or threat.\nWhile you're not using direct insults, you're still making personal attacks, i.e.: attacking your conversational partner instead of the topic itself - \"kids\" (declaring someone is your inferior and speaking down to them meets the criteria above). This causes escalation, so don't do that please.\nI also see you've been doing a lot of flaming in the form of bigotry on this thread.\nPlease stop equating LGBT to a form of mental illness.\nThe basic stance of American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychiatric Association is that \"homosexuality is not a mental disorder but is rather a normal form of human sexuality, and they propose that their stance is based on significant scientific evidence\".\nIn 1990, homosexuality was declassified as a mental disorder by WHO (World Health Organization) in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10)\nIn 2019 WHO no longer classifies gender nonconformity as a \u201cmental disorder.\u201d\nYou're a relatively new account so please treat this as your one and only warning as reddiquette is actively enforced here."], ["Tun M: Maybe I shouldn't take photos with that Pink Guy last year..."], ["Hasil Look East Policy."], ["Why is that leg at that angle ?\nThe second picture.."], ["Congratulations champ, you made history"], ["I really hope nothing bad happens to you lol"], ["Now I know Tun M Redditor name :26561:"], ["Didnt know malaysia had a wax museum. It looks so real , howd you get it to change expressions?"], ["Is he going to save Cosplay ?"], ["Who is this cutie on the right?"], ["He looked like the grandpa in disney up movie lol"], ["Was he aware that you're a guy? \ud83d\ude02"], ["ICONIC."], ["Did you tell that fucking racist to piss off?"], ["dont take foto... it's nothing. take video, it's more pro and can keep repeat and laugh, bcos Tun is the Shiaets, everyone wants to live the lavish life, how many can be so high up there, itu maha KUT !", "Yeah I should have lmao but the security was intimidating and there was a crowd of people wanting to take pictures"], ["Nice to see Mahatir and his son"], ["<image>", "H, T, L", "Eh\u2026 N, G", "Nah. it's B,G"], ["Not sure what is so proud about talking pictures with a racist ex PM"], ["What\u2019s so good about taking a pic with this old prick?"], ["\"if I have a time machine, I'll go back 80 years to my youth and show this pic to them and that'll make them commit sudoku on themselves\"", "You want them to commit a number-placement puzzle on themselves? \ud83e\udd14"], ["Who ever did the make up is awesome"], ["Now do this but with obama"], ["Impossibly based."], ["AYO WTF"], ["No fucking way XD"], ["Bro rethinking his idea of \"Dasar Pandang ke Timur\""]]}
{"title": "Somalian Tiktok Influencer Safiah21 Disturbing People In Starbuck Malaysia", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18uh11w/somalian_tiktok_influencer_safiah21_disturbing/", "num_comment": 53, "flairlabel": ["Mildly interesting"], "header": "", "comments": [["Let people drink and eat what they want :26563:\nAlso me: Eww Starbucks people and their glorified overpriced sugary water :26556:"], ["What about those workers earning a living there?", "Doesn't affect her, so fuck them", "Honest living at that \ud83e\udd72", "who cares, let's people here don't have a job, die cannot eat, all their family members need to be neglected,as long as idk somehow saving Palestine by doing that?"], ["So we got a Johnny Somali case here?", "apparently it's funny to harass people in public"], ["I hope she will deported out of this country for being stupid", "lol i expect the majority of the population here will treat her as queen while blaming the Cina for drinking in Starbucks.", "Funny how they told me as a non-Muslim that supporting Palestine is not for religion but humanitarian cause\nMy University had a \"Walk for peace\" campaign in honor of Palestine\nMy simple question, if this is for humanitarian causes, why was there no public outrage for the Ukrainians when Russia invaded? Why didn't they storm to the Russian embassy and cast them out?\nSimple answer: It IS about religion lol", "heck, there's even some malaysian teenagers on social media who supports Russia for their actions", "Support Russia, and then support Palestine later on. Lmao.", "I even approached one of them and they said they support Russia because \"Ukraine was under Russia during the soviet times\", like that doesn't make sense at all lmao. that doesn't justify anything", "That's a major facepalm.", "Simple answer: It IS about religion lol\nnote: only the religion when practiced by Arabs\nThere's a genocide happening to Uyghurs in China but none of the muslims here seem to kick up a fuss about it.", "Tbh, rohingyas in myanmar and people in darfur sudan are muslims too and they are prosecuted badly but no one goes and protest for them either.\nFunnily enough, rohingyas arrived in aceh indonesia but they are strongly rejected by the locals there just a few days ago, even the students went out and protested about them.", "Dont get started on some of the bs rohingyas have done here as well.", "I've read many Indonesians say that Rohingya refugees tend to behave terribly there, which is why they cant stand them any longer", "Why blame the cina for drinking starbuck?", "pendatang/kafir harbi/DAP/Komunis/Sepupu Chin Peng pick your tagline here", "Who hurt u so bad bro?", "The average intelligence of the majorities", "Feel bad for you bro. Biasalah tak semua manusia tu baik hati.", "Lol xpayah cover bro, cuba korang baca komen kat TikTok tu, byk je member kau maki orang Cina sbb shorts tu ade \"muka sepet\"... dont expect much when most Malaysian are blinded with pemujaan yg zalim", "byk je member kau\nThere's no need for generalization, every race has their own bunch of assholes.", "Sorry bro. Aku tak ada tiktok. So selepas kau tersakiti, apa kau buat utk ubati hati kau?"], ["Cringe behaviour, time to buy starbucks tmr"], ["Saw what somalis and pakistanis ( local and diaspora )wrote before abt malaysian minorities on twitter. Most of it are N*zi vibes and let say, not good."], ["I saw the original video and damn everyone was supportive. What's the world becoming to ><", "ohhh jgn memain dengan tiktok, the place where people easily influenced mcm kerbau kena tarik hidung"], ["I fking hate people like this. Let people do what they want as long it doesn't affect others.\nYou people need to take a chill pill."], ["The Tiktoker hates Starbucks for it's involvement with Politics\nI hate Starbucks just because it's Starbucks", "The Tiktoker hates Starbucks for it's involvement with Politics\nThey hate Starbucks because it's the trend to hate on starbucks. They are clout chasing no talent vultures.", "Eh I wouldn't strawman the influencer too much , maybe she does have good intentions , but I find them annoying"], ["Go back to Somali and eat shit. Reminds me of another Somalian Tiktoker that have been arrested by Japanese authority due to a long list of criminal acts he committed and live stream them when visiting Japan, the news say the sheer amount of evidence from his own videos is enough to put him under detention for years and investigation if the authority itemizes the crime individually before the trial even start."], ["Not all Tourists are idiots people think they're because of people like these"], ["Look at me, this is my Starbucks now"], ["r/imthemainchatacter"], ["More unemployed behaviour."], ["If I'm a foreigner of a country I would never do such stuff. Even in the US with free speech foreigners can get deported if they participate in a protest. She should go protest in her own country if she believes in a \"genocide\"", "That's not true"], ["If I went in without intending to buy shit, that call out wouldve made me buy a drink and some for my officemates\nI support Palestine but this kind of activism makes me frustrated."], ["Think I will order Starbuck\u3002"], ["What an idiot. There is ZERO Starbucks presence in Israel."], ["So we have our version of \u201cPizzagate\u201d now?! :26563:\nJust leave people alone\u2026"], ["Starbucks drinks are shit.\nRegardless whether Pro-Palestine or not, this \"boycott\" has made me realise how much money we send to Western countries for no good reason.\nIf it's gonna be shitty sugar drinks, we might as well buy it from local brands like Zus, Gigi, Richiamo or whatever. Same shit but at least the money stays in the country.", "Hey hey, they started boycotting Zus for sounding like a Greek God too"], ["she shd do it in Singapore. Then she will learn what is respect."], ["Alamak! What if somebody shouted Hamas are terrorists at her? \ud83d\ude02", "Cyberbullying using her minions on tiktok."], ["I'm not hating Starbucks at all, at least not now with the buy 1 free 1 until Monday. After Monday, that's another story for next year."], ["I believe they did the same in Istanbul and it was cringey af."]]}
{"title": "Georgetown and Balik Pulau", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u630f/georgetown_and_balik_pulau/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Pics taken from Ngor Hean temple and Air Itam Dam.", "comments": [["<image>\nView from mainland"]]}
{"title": "Penang mum hopes to be reunited with missing toddler", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4vcf/penang_mum_hopes_to_be_reunited_with_missing/", "num_comment": 6, "flairlabel": ["Mildly interesting"], "header": "On Sept 2, Kannan arranged with Thevitthra to take the child to a mall at Gurney Drive here.\nThat evening, while Thevitthra was waiting for the child to return, she received a text from Kannan claiming they had \u201cgone to KL\u201d.\nShe lodged a police report and later filed an application with the Shah Alam High Court, which ordered Kannan to hand over the child on Oct 28.\nFailing this, she claimed he also ignored another court order to return the child by Nov 5. Kannan and the child are now in Singapore where they have been since Nov 5.\nOn Nov 21, the court issued an order instructing the police to find the toddler and bring her back to her mother. The immigration department was also ordered to bar Kannan from taking the child out of the country.\nKannan told FMT the child wants to remain with him, and this is why he has not complied with the Nov 21 court order for him to surrender the child to Thevitthra.\ne also said he has filed an application in court in relation to the custody dispute which has yet to be heard.\nMeanwhile, Thevitthra has gone to Singapore in search of her daughter and even filed a police report in Clementi there.\nShe said she was informed that Singapore police could only search for the child if their Malaysian counterparts made a formal request. Thevitthra said there had been no action despite repeated attempts for an update and help from the Selangor and Penang police to locate her child. The immigration department informed her that the child was still out of the country as of two weeks ago.\nFMT has contacted the Malaysian and Singaporean police for comment.\nLooks like the article has been taken down.\nThere should be calls to change on rules for application of passports else if this occurance will definitely be more frequent, ie parents running out of the country with the child.\nLooks like someone is trying to kill this story. Most newspages and even the lowyat post has been taken down.", "comments": [["Wtf...with these Indian men kidnapping their own children(at least those made it to news). We have few trash convert Indians Muslims who made highlight the last decade. I mean I am all for men chivalry caring for the child and all, but this ain't it. Hopefully this one don't have religion involved, one less complication and legal issue.", "Yes that's true. Hopefully, religion doesn't become just a tool for this sort of behavior. Marriage seems to be a game for men like this."]]}
{"title": "Old school cool : revisitng 1998", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ugtih/old_school_cool_revisitng_1998/", "num_comment": 11, "flairlabel": [], "header": "We had Commonwealth games, Anwar getting arrested for reformasi and the financial crises\nWhats your fondest memory from that year?", "comments": [["accessing the Internet via TMNet dial-up. Anyone remember babyrina? \ud83d\ude0f\nthe CM is Koh Tsu Koon from Gerakan. Since they're part of BN, okay lah\nwe would buy pirated game DVDs from malls, usually at the topmost floor. The one in Bukit Jambul Complex goes for RM12-RM15 per DVD\nBas Kuning ftw", "Bukit jambul complex omg. My fellow penangite I presume. I used to buy my pc game CDs from there. Good memories circling the top floor finding for my fav games during the holidays", "Yup, Penangite here! Of course I have fond memories of BJC (I was there back when there's an ice skating rink at the ground floor), but my most nostalgic CD/DVD shop would always be that place at Komtar (kinda hard to describe the location though lol).\nAlso back then there's a florist shop in Pulau Tikus that sells old PC games with their thick manuals.", "Babyrina, we sure have cum a long way :26554::26554::26554:", "Internet was introduced. Netscape navigator and yahoo paved the way. Mirc and icq happened and yes babyrina and Ckg Suraya were two staple names amongst the teenagers that time \ud83e\udd23", "Mirc and icq\nAnd MSN Messenger!"], ["Still hectic as ever around Kota Raya and Petaling Street, just more foreigners around and lots of homeless near CM."], ["All the cars seen are considered a shitbox today.\nAll the bikes mostly remain the same, small capchai dominated by ex5."], ["Also, potholes \ud83e\udd23"], ["Malaysia good in preserving culture.\nPot hole\nCross the road sesuka hati\nNot maintain buildings\nNot friendly predestination walkway\nDouble park\nProton wira"], ["Video is going to be 26 yrs old. Half of 90s and 00s are entering 30s and 20s respectively. Holy...."]]}
{"title": "Is \"sibeh\" is bad word in penang?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18udmk4/is_sibeh_is_bad_word_in_penang/", "num_comment": 15, "flairlabel": ["Language"], "header": "My friend in penang told me that sibeh is a bad word and it is rude for me to say it in front of other penangnites.\nIn context: Si = \"die\" Beh=sounds like \"pek\" which is father in hokkien\nYeah I'm just confused about this. I always thought that sibeh=very. Any penangnites or nyets who understand hokkien help me explain this?", "comments": [["Your friend is full of it. Sibeh / sipek is just a word for \"very\", albeit in a crude manner.\nEdit : crude as in (sipek kiam = fucking salty)"], ["Sibeh isn\u2019t a bad word"], ["Sibeh is very\nYour friend is just messing with you.\nMy advise, mess with him back"], ["hm? sibeh = very , yes. what is this? another cancelation attempt?"], ["It's not a cuss word, it's just crass. People who label themselves as classy and turn up their noses on anyone using this crass word will look down on you if you used it too much. I use it sparingly and only in front of people who are ok with my usage of it."], ["Sibeh should be a slang word for \"very\".\nBut, I suppose it is rude to say it in front of your dad. As far as I know, it's made up of 2 words \"si\" and \"beh\" that means \"dead\" and \"father\" respectively. So uttering it every time is like saying \"Oh on my dead dad, that xxx is yyy\".\nThe other exclamation Chinese phrase is walaoweh, meaning showing surprise or incredulity. Based off \"wa\", \"lao\", and \"peh\" which means \"Oh my old dad!\"."], ["You sure your friend is from Penang? Lmao try to translate \"si pek kao lat\" or \"si pek ho liao\" with your friend's explanation and see if it makes sense or not.", "You can tell whether someone understands the dialect based on whether they think 4896 is a funny number"], ["I thought \"sibek\" means \"die white\" in Hokkien?"], ["Sibeh ho jiak = very tasty"], ["What about Cibek?"], ["yea, the origin of the word is correct, you can ignore those comments that are ignorant of it, using a word without understanding the word's true origin is kinda pathetic\nits fine to use it among your friends, but not suitable with elders, its not very polite\nits exactly the same thing with \"fucking\" when you say this chicken chop is fucking good, nobody will think that fucking means sexual intercourse, although the origin of the word is referring to it, people will understand that you mean \"very\"\nstill, you wouldn't use the word \"fucking good\" in front of your parents or people that you should respect and be polite to"], ["Growing up I never used \"sipek\" / \"sibeh\". Very was \"cin chia\". I always assumed that was Southern Hokkien influence."], ["sibeh is not - your friend is lying.\nUnless it was cipet - then that's quite vulgar a term for the female genatalia."], ["No, sibeh means very"]]}
{"title": "Can we someday have a law where we report highbeam sohais for cash or have their license revoked:/ literally so fed up with these fuckers", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18tm7da/can_we_someday_have_a_law_where_we_report/", "num_comment": 173, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Been behind me for fucking half an hour sien", "comments": [["<image>\nTime to do this", "I wish this is legal", "Same", "I did it on my car\u2026 so far it is safe\u2026 just be careful always turn off if not in use.", "Show us the mod please. I'd like to do it too but I drive hatchbacks", "Hatch back is lot more better\u2026 just shop some bright ass \u201cspot light\u201d in shoppe and if you find it is good then just buy it\u2026\nSince you are using Hatchback you can just attach the spot light at the base of you radio board\u2026 and let it face back. From there pandai2 sambung wayar to somekind of switch", "I have a solar light unit at 1000w. Perhaps it'll work. Hmmmm", "Holy fuck\u2026 thats big\u2026 start small dude \ud83d\udc80", "No problem just make your break light Bright and when at traffic just hold your break light it going to be annoying for them", "...but this requires braking. Usually on the road, this happens on highways where you don't brake for extended periods of time.\nThere's really no way to win", "Alright teknik cari gaduh, let him overtake you than chase him and high beam him from behind", "Been there when young, nowadays I just mencarut and let them overtake", "Brake check him until he overtakes you, or he gets down the car and fight you.\nEither way, there's drama!", "Halo pulis, akta hasutan candidate here", "Cannot lah unless you don\u2019t plan on stopping in front of regular ppl for sure will have collateral damage as well, then u become asshole too", "A friend of mine bought a silver navara and he stick some kind of silver reflector sticker and the back of the truck.", "Counter Beam: Lampu offensive", "Mana install I want"], ["You can email jpj. Include your details and what you believe the other car did wrong. Include the plate number of the car. Video or photo of the vehicle with the offence. Plate number must be clear.", "Was assuming jpj wouldn\u2019t give a damn even if I sent them something but if u tried it. Does it work?", "They do. Not sure about jpj, but the police traffic 1 is proven to work. A friend of mine once got a court summon because he rode his motorcycle against a 1 way street. Someone reported him.\nSo im guessing jpj also works.", "Ah I\u2019ll try it soon then", "My experience on the other hand, is that i reported some lorries driving dangerously, over speed limit and obviously overweight (like it is going to explode) to the number they always put behind the lorries (aduan sila sms blabla number). This is in the era where the sms to 5 digit number is the norm. Didnt get any response, dont know if my report is in or not, taken care of or not."], ["I curse 7 generations of theirs to the deepest pits of hell.\nOn top of being fucking annoying, it's also extremely dangerous as the glare obscures the vision - it's especially hard to tell when motorcyclists are coming through.\nThese are the kinds of sohais I wish there was \"social justice\" for. Fucking had it with these sohais.", "THANK YOU AMEN AMIN NAMO ABUTABHI BROTHER", "Bro, u dont say. Most motor use high beam also.", "I\u2019m sorry man\u2026 try to fix it, but still if i put on low beam it goes to high beam\u2026 if i put it on high beam it goes to high beam\u2026 bike parts are not getting cheap. \ud83d\udc80", "Put tape on the top half of ur front light. Now its a low beam. Your welcome :>", "That\u2019s actually what i did yesterday", "Did it work", "Amazingly enough\u2026 yes\u2026"], ["It doesn't matter what law, these sohais will always be there to announce their stupid presence... Just slow down, let them pass... & you can have your revenge if you want to... Just a waste of time to even think about them..."], ["I will purposely slow the car to the point they cannot tahan and overtake me. No rage on both side and problem gone. Doesn't take half an hour. Works everything.", "This is what I usually do... I take my leg off the accelerator, and just let the car cruise until it crawls.. No aggressive sudden brakes since that's dangerous.", "I did once, except it wasn't a highway. It was a two lane road and I am already on the left lane. The idiot think it is funny to follow behind me with lampu so bright when the right lane is empty.\nSo I just promptly indicate left, and proceed to stop and park on the side of the road.\nIt was midnight too so there is no one else around on the road so it is so obvious when he passed me I immediately get back on the road again behind him calmly continue driving.\nYou can't argue with stupid. Best is to let them be on their way."], ["If you are not on the right lane (overtaking lane), then just flip the rear review mirror on your r/kereta.\nIf you are actually on the right lane, get out of the lane", "I don't think OP would dare take pic if traffic is fast. The vehicle is moving slowly that's why he is able to take a pic hahaha"], ["Pullover, get behind him, revenge", "Do not revenge. Later if someone bring baseball bat, everyone in trouble. Unwanted and useless escalation. A lot of case already. Regular people suddenly become crazy.", "I\u2019d love to but I\u2019m a relatively new driver and Honda city brakes kinda shit", "Your tyres suck. I drive a Honda City sometimes and never had an issue. If you don't have a gear selector hope your auto gear has a selector as that helps slow the front section of your car.\nCar brakes can easily out break tyre grip. Modern cars have abs so it makes you think your brakes are terrible as they don't lock. When your tyres don't grip abs won't let you over brake and lock the tyres.\nGrab an OBD2 device and see if abs trips when braking. If it does it's a problem with your tyres.", "Too professional. Put it in words monke like me can understand. But basically what\u2019s a oBD2 and yeah idk much bout cars as well gotta say, shud I get Michelin tires?", "Michelin sucks kinda lol. Go continental.\nOBD2 is a diagnostic port. When there's no grip abs releases the brakes to prevent your tyres locking which causes flat spots and reduced braking distance. If you feel your brakes suck check your tyres. Make sure they are also filled too. When a safety feature triggers it usually gets logged which you can read from any computer plugged into the OBD2 port. In some cases your brakes may not be working properly like your fluid levels being too low however most of the time people don't realise their tyres are worn or are using terrible tyres.", "Michelin primacy and pilot sport series is actually good", "the 2 main brands are michelin and continental, and there are many sub brands or brands connected to them. The michelin side dont even last 5 years, only 2 years. Continental is about 5 years in practice.\nDespite what they say about their life time, the in practice part is down to rubber degradation not wear, based on my experience. My used car initially came with michelin, and based on the year needed changing despite 2 years. I had an accident with them, no grip then suddenly super grip and burst.\nMy mums honda city came with continentals, been stuck with them and worked great, 4-5 years between changes with the exception of the tyre bursting from very very bad pot holes. I switch my used car to one of continental sub brands and its been decent.", "Yeah I mean other Michelin maybe questionable but FWIW Primacy and Pilot Sport is actually good in my experience", "true, but not everyone can afford the same as you. Im currently using vikings on my ecobox, a sub brand of continental. Its been more than 2 years and grip is still good even though i dont drive much. The tyre advertises as a balanced tyre in wet/dry so its not the best at either as it is advertised for use in cities and are asymmetrical tyres. They were very cheap too. When i say grip is good i mean the rubber degradation as i've left my car parked outside unused for months which is usually quite a harsh thing.\nIn general most people wont be able to afford the best tyres and own ecoboxes which then means like in the case of the honda city and toyota vios which are 3rd world special ecoboxes is that, what can they afford? And in this case michelin doesnt cater to them. You own a performance car and you can afford the tyres thats good but not everyone can either. Your tyre fails on the road you're hitting something while on a track theres grass and tyres to pad your crash.", "sigh\nI am not saying people should absolutely go for these Michelin tyres. I\u2019m not saying everyone can afford primacy and PS4/PS5.\nI\u2019m just saying they are good. So not all Michelin tyres are bad.\nI myself is using Lassa brands. Sounds sketchy but it\u2019s claimed to be using Bridgestone rubbers.", "Aite noted my guy", "Allow me to complicate things for you.\nShock absorbers are also responsible for this. If the damping is poor, the contact patch varies. Good or bad tyres lose their contact time on the road thus causing longer braking distance and most people fail to realise this happens long before you actually hear the clunking noises.\nIt's subtle. Check the absorbers regularly. The bounce test is often done, but people don't see the nuances. Every tyre rotation interval is an opportunity for visual and mechanical checks.\nReplace brake fluid FULLY every 20k km DONE. Not that expensive by the way. Our climate is humid. Every time you press brakes they transfer heat from pad to fluid. Repeated heating and cooling causes moisture to form, and over time this will interfere with the fluid's incompressibility. Modern vehicles may have a sensor for this, but I still think prevention is better than cure. Even if it looks 'clean'. Sludge is also an enemy that will be slayed this way.\nCar ownership sucks sometimes. I digress.\nLearnt this over 4 decades of driving. Happy motoring!", "Pilot sports 5 is one of the best tyres ive ever used on the road and that coming from a guy who used to track a lot locally and internationally and have used slicks and semi slicks", "Yeah even their primacy tyres are good", "the problem is their life span, not initial performance. Mine caused an accident being just 2 years old. No grip, suddenly super grip, burst and crash.", "My last pilot sport 4 lasted well into its 5th year whilst i waited for the pilot sport 5 to ve released. Im not sure about cheaper offerings from them as i have always made it a point to invest in good tyres usually top of the line as i am a fast driver in a decently powerful car. I can't say much about your experience as I've not experienced it but I'd recommend using nitrogen for better lifespan, slower loss of pressure, maybe checking for uneven wear, rotate the tyres etc.", "Nitrogen part not true. Mine is an ecobox. The problem I had was rubber degrading and I have to park outside. Our affordable houses don't have garages.\nThe only place where nitrogen is used is aeronautics. The high heat can cause the oxygen to combust and the uneven gas heat capacity would be an issue. So I bet where you fill is a scam because most of air is nitrogen.\nSure mine aren't performance tyres but not everyone can afford a lot of money for high performance tyres. If the main brands regular tyres rubber last long that's the minimum. There's trade off in a lot for design though and the tyres I once had the biggest complaint was life span and was a common complaint.", "Ill counter argue that nitrogens benefits come from lower wear over time when it comes to the steel lines in your tyres which can affect longevity. It also requires less refill in general as it is more stable. Proof in case i drop 5 to 10 psi (low profile tyres) over a month compared to conventional air through gas station compressors that sees that every 2 weeks. If you like, I'll share my logs through 2023. Its minute in detail but is worth it in the long run. Again granted, very heavy driving and fast corners (empty roads only. I dont let loose when there's cars around)\nI totally get where you're coming from. I do. Ive been broke through most of this year thanks to many things affecting the business but if you dont mind my 2 cents, your tyres are the only thing connecting you to the roads. Its worth maybe saving 50 a month over 3 years for an upgrade. It keeps you safe, protect you from idiots and granted our weather, it'll minimise dangers from puddles on our shitty roads. It really does cut through the waters extremely well. Great stopping distance, handling, reliability really does go a long way to protect your investment and yourself.\nI don't mean to offend. Just sharing my thoughts as i do believe in the importance of good tyres and what it brings to your table.\nEdit: my nitrogen refills are free of charge even when i buy my tyres from elsewhere.", "You understand well the N2 argument in lower performance requirements. The part we need to be wary of is actually moisture in the compressed air system. Believe me when I say our petrol stations or most tyre shops for that matter do not have air dryers. At most a small in line filter dryer that hardly gets purged. Only industrial systems here have it because moisture reduces pneumatic performance and causes valve problems. Also corrosion.\nNitrogen is therefore logical in this respect, and nothing else. The average car does not need F1 levels of predictability or measurability.\nYes, our sun does a terrific job of breaking down and hardening the tyre compound, regardless of quality of the tyre. That's what branded tyre dressing compounds and regular washing with good degreasers are for. Car ownership goes beyond just the cosmetics. Don't skimp on quality and regularity.\nHappy motoring!", "You don't need to be near for high beams to work. They are literally meant to be bright far away", "The car brakes shit not cause of the brand. It's cause there's something wrong with it. Get your brakes checked. If that shop say it's like that fk that shop and go another.", "It's the tyres. Abs is preventing the wheels locking so you can't tell. If tyres don't grip abs don't brake.", "Esp if shock absorbers are failing.", "thats if the ESP plays with the suspension. basic ESP uses brakes instead so thats wh you typically see ESP and ABS together.\nHowever it is important for the regular driver to have ESP to avoid accidents altogether /s", "Extra Sensory Perception. Yes. Foresee idiots and defend. \ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\ude01", "can you explain 'brakes kinda shit'", "Or just change to another lane, slow down, let him pass, and change back.", "I like doing this when I can. I'm petty as fuck."], ["I put mirrors at the back and reflective tape all over the back bonnet. Get fucked highbeamer.", "Someone get this guy a YouTube channel. We need to do what he does.", "I already have one but I only make videos", "You only make videos? For YouTube? That...that'll do just fine.", "LOL. This serial liar does not even own a car. He is the Captain Planet that \"cleans\" with sticks he found and takes the LRT everywhere.", "Yes I need tutorial"], ["Flip your center rear kview mirror.. that way, you just looking in the reflection. That's how I drive at night. Down side is, if you forgot to flip back and an idiot have very low or did not turn on their light, you have no idea someone is behind you\nhttps://www.v3cars.com/features-explained/day-night-inside-rear-view-mirror-irvm-feature-explained#:~:text=A%20mechanical%20switch%20under%20the,everytime%20you%20change%20the%20mode. Hope this helps..", "I can\u2019t tell if your joking but I\u2019ll take a look soon", "Not a joke. That's why you have that toggle in your center rear view mirror..\nA good driving instructor should have teach you this. I don't remember who taught me.."], ["Turn the mirror away, take the foot off the accelerator and let the car slow down to a crawl. Best done when there's car on your side and so the farker at the back can't overtake.\nIt will drive him mad while U drive peacefully in a safe speed."], ["I always keep a hand held mirror in my glovebox for this situation, I aim the light back at their retina :)", "HOLY FUCK YOU GENIUS I LOVE REDDIT SO MUCH"], ["Just flip your rearview mirror???\n<image>", "Can confirm it works for high beams from sohai drivers, but on roads where there are non-functional street lamps/street lamps that run in the day time, might be harder to see what's behind your car", "Yeah actually this is the way", "The problem is the side mirrors as well lol."], ["Switch lane let them overtake switch back to original lane turn on high light"], ["A lot of people seems to be assuming I\u2019m on the right lane. I\u2019m on center lane and we\u2019re all stuck in traffic.", "Well next time put in that detail. Road hogs (babi jalanan) are a menace too.", "Yeah forgor people can\u2019t read minds will rmb next time"], ["I know a person who purposely did this every time he drives Aruz. Reason is because he points out that every suv drivers do this. Tried to argue that it is not true but stupidity wins\u2026"], ["Aim your rearview mirror toward the car... They will shut it down themselves... I used it quite a lot of time... It worked... Maybe the light reflected back to them..."], ["Same. Drove from KL to JB then back to KL few days ago and highbeam mofos are out in full force. I am already in the slow lane since i drive an older car, I even let go of the throttle to let this mofo overtake me. Nope, they wants to ride my ass with high beams and fog lights on. Even worst if I get stuck in a jam and it is downhill.\nHappened more than once too in the same drive, although with varying degrees of annoyance."], ["You\u2019re forgetting the best part, he\u2019s behind you which means you can drive slow af to piss him off."], ["As someone with poor vision, these lights always hurt my eyes.\nThey so blind they need such bright and high lights to drive?\nI hope they all crash.", "Fr"], ["I hope these kind of people always have to go to the toilet when they got comfortable on their bed and their car's engine breakdown at the most inconvenient of their time"], ["Every Malaysian should strive to be a sohai, since Malaysia Boleh!\nJoke aside. Malaysia tarak boleh, sebab orang malas kerja enforcement tarak buat kerja.\nSo you can report kaw-kaw, but unless you have enough wang sogok, then nothing of substance will be done.\nMalaysia Boleh!\nThat is why awhile ago someone asked if he/she should learn Cantonese or Mandarin, and I replied French or German instead. Pity me got thumbs down.\nWhy French or German leh?\nBecause someday if lucky, can migrate to a much better country mah.\nTo live in a better country needs to speak French or German. Otherwise, how? Speak Cantonese with the foreigners ah? Boleh balik Malaysia la.\nDon't dream small by learning Cantonese/Mandarin.\nDream big by learning French/German instead.\nMalaysia Tak Boleh! Saya Boleh!\nMaciam ni la.", "Ong very motivational. Bout to resign from digi customer service and go learn Myanmar language and have my organs harvested", "Then you would not be upgrading yourself to a better country. Instead, you would be downgrading yourself to a worse country.", "So wow, much motivational", "https://govisafree.com/best-countries-to-live-in/\nYup"], ["Dont forget rear foglamp cibais"], ["Problem really is when they put those LED lights on cars not meant for such lights."], ["That\u2019s why YB allows 100% tint for the back. Make use of it"], ["Bruh, now day there's too many white light on the road. Not the gentle factory manufactured ones, but OEM REM parts. Last time I check a set of them would cost 400 ringgit but at shopee only 30 ringgit a bulb. Smh no wonder lah sakit mata", "Oem are manufactured by Tier 1 manufacturers and are 1 to 1 replacement parts. Hence, conforming to standards.\nYou are referring to REM parts (replacement equipment manufacturing) which are not going to meet any standard. Companies like Depo fit in the latter. People buy these because REM are cheaper than even used OEM. Such is the market.\nGood OEM are APM, Kayaba, Stanley, Koito, Tokico,Philips, Osram, MGAE, VDO, Visteon, Delloyd etc etc, backed by big corporations that supply both the vehicle manufacturer and after sales markets.\nYou really don't want to ruin your Continental or Asian car with REM parts.", "Ahh REM. Never heard of that term. Make perfect sense to me, it always chepo replacement flood the market. Thanks info \ud83d\udc4d"], ["lmaoo, I can relate to you. Was driving back to Ipoh on 9-10 pm , and one range rover black color headlight so bright I can see heaven already. My eyes can't even open and worse, there was jam. Can't even move to left cuz already filled with cars.", "Let\u2019s change our back car window to reflective ones like the motorcyclist helmet kind of mirror", "AHAHAH i seriously second this choice. But unfortunately I am a chicken and scared later polis tangkap me :/", "Worse if the jerk behind is a thug in real life with connections. Malaysia Baharu...", "yep, that's why gotta be extra extra careful while driving. Especially those expensive cars, you dk who's driving and what they might do if you piss them off"], ["Never have this issue after I tinted my back glass 90% dark. (It\u2019s legal though, no limit for back seat glasses). I guess you should do that too. But yeah, fuck these dufes"], ["Just let him through\u2026 if you\u2019re driving on the right lane you\u2019re blocking ppl"], ["just put a mirror at back to reflect back\ud83d\ude0e", "This is the way"], ["so why u cibai dont move away and let him overtake ? ego right...typical"], ["Ahhh... Honda City driver... No wonder feeling so entitled. Haha. It depends really. If you are on the right lane, then move to the left lane. If it is a one-lane, then follow the speed limit and use the thing on your rear view mirror.", "On the center lane all the time. I\u2019m not a right lane hogger u nerd.", "You could have moved to the left lane and let him pass no?", "Haha ok2 no need to get emo. Then another option is to move to the left most lane.", "I\u2019m not surprised if u have no friends Man. U wanna look at what u wrote? I don\u2019t think u gave any valuable inputs", "Oh man I shook some feathers didn't I. Let's be friends then \ud83d\ude09", "Mmm explain it on monke mm actually u don\u2019t have to I\u2019m done here\ud83d\udc4c", "I mean, why else would the car makers come up with this feature? To shoo away reindeers is it? Nooo. It is to tell other drivers to move away. I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...", "You have not been driving on the highways at night. People use high beam all the time.", "Yeah I've been there. My point is, avoid these people within your power and not crying out to have laws for it. It's a simple issue with a simple solution. And I am sure any law abiding drivers would use the high beam when the need arises.", "\"I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...\"\nYou obviously don't know them.", "I thought its main purpose is to be used during very low visibility like when there is no streetlight at all, even then when there is another car in front of you or coming the opposite way we always turn it off anyway to be considerate and safe. But then, I might be wrong so feel free to correct me.\nAlso it is damn hard to change lane safely when you cannot see anything behind you other than the bright light beeming into your every mirror.\n\"I know they won't use it lightly if it is not necessary...\" Look if this is the case no one would complain also.\nAnd also I drive a small old ratty car so I never stay on the right lane or middle lane unnecessarily, but still kena this kind of driver how??\nIt is obvious that you are one of these kind of driver so my advice is to think of other people when you drive. We share the road, so try to match other's speed and be kind and considerate. Not keep beeming everyone demanding people give way to you regardless of any situation. Who the f do you think you are?.", "Woah no need to use f letter here. The lever has 2 sides, when you push it, high beam for the dark roads, if you pull it, it is for a quick second to signal something and it goes back to its natural position.\nMy point is, it is a simple problem with a simple solution. Use your own means to control the situation. You can adjust your rear view mirror so it won't be glaring as much, and then safely change lanes."], ["Usually partially blind old uncles. What to do, aging population"], ["Goes both ways.\nStop hogging the right lane if you\u2019re cruising at 40km/h. Fuck off."], ["Highbeam literally flashbanged my eyes at night. That's why I don't drive at night anymore"], ["put reflective mirror at the rear :)"], ["This is the reason why i always try to buy cars with auto dimming rear view mirror, precisely to not get blinded by these assholes\nSometimes certain things really can't be helped like if you drive a low car and the car behind is a tall SUV, but most times you can see idiots that turn on their high beam because they don't know what's the difference. Easy to spot because they'll have their fog lights on too.\nBasically they switch everything on blindly (heh) and go about their way blinding everyone", "I didn\u2019t know auto dimming morris existed I\u2019ll need one", "It's very handy, borderline essential given how ignorant our drivers are. Highly reccomend!"], ["if your car has rear fog lights turn them on", "If only I had them.. does myvi highest spec have that? I\u2019d get a myvi when I earned enuf money", "don't think so. usually only conti cars got"], ["Even if there are laws about this fat chance of ppl abiding by it and the police/jpj enforcing it."], ["I would usually let the overtake me then turn my highlights on \ud83e\udd23"], ["Buy mini spotlight and put in the back"], ["Usually I just flip that switch below my rear view mirror and proceed to slow down gradually.\nHe can over take me whenever he is ready."], ["I usually tap down on the rear view mirror leaver to have it polarized. I thought its standard in all vehicles. Although, i do agree it can be annoying to see high beam on side view mirrors."], ["Try install reflective tint on rear windshield and chrome accessories.."], ["I'm kinda guilty about this but then again, I have no idea how or why my saga headlight normal mode is like a highbeam. Been getting flashed by oncoming traffic even though it's on normal. It came out of the factory like that or something?"], ["just get out of the way slowpoke", "cry"], ["why drive infront of the dude for 30mins without letting him pass."], ["Also the light would be pointed straight to the front instead of angled downwards"], ["Driving with astigmatism even more jialat :( it's really super dangerous wth"], ["Adjust your side mirrors towards them.."], ["Next time someone's headlight is stabbing your eyes through the rear view mirror, the mirror has a little tab on it. FLICK THE TAB", "THANK YOU"], ["First get auto darkening mirror. Second, angle mirror upwards. Third, let them overtake then do the same to them"], ["They should ban white light. Revert to orange lights."], ["Just let him pass. Don't be a moving chicane"], ["we have the same problem in brunei..."], ["Let\u2019s fix the bully rempits first\u2026"], ["This is in fact illegal in many countries. You are not allowed to use your high beams in good weather because it can blind other drivers."], ["we have many laws in Malaysia. the problem is the enforcement authority and the lack of enforcement, lack of professionalism and customer service, huge attitude problem with all government authorities. stuck in Third-World level of service."], ["Better weaponised backlight by shining super power light and and let them suffer."], ["Let them pass"], ["apparently there is a new traffic law that we need to have BOTH hands on the wheel if caught on camera we have one hand adjusting radio we will be fined\uff01 what country are we living in\uff1f", "And not a law on retards that loves to use highlights \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d"]]}
{"title": "Merdeka 118 rising on a gloomy day", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u7zip/merdeka_118_rising_on_a_gloomy_day/", "num_comment": 5, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["The citadel"], ["I call it the walkie talkie"], ["Kinda has middle finger vibes \ud83d\udd95", "Exactly what I see from an architectural standpoint. All the other buildings around it are much lower, thus being the folded fingers"], ["Half life vibes"]]}
{"title": "Is this scam in Georgetown?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4qbf/is_this_scam_in_georgetown/", "num_comment": 18, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "header": "I (F, solo) arrived in Georgetown last night, while on the street a guy comes to me and asked if I can help him take a pic, his camera is so blurry so I told him it wouldn\u2019t look good, he agreed and then said could you help me take pic over there with the street art? I said yes but the pic wouldn\u2019t look good as you can see how bad the picture quality can get, it only captures the color and light but no details at all, he then said, well thank you and I\u2019m going to have some tea would you like to come? I said no my friends are waiting for me, he then shook my hand and said goodbye. I feel this is such a weird conversation and got more alert. After meeting with my friends (yeah I did have friends waiting for me), another guy come to us and ask for money to help me get some food and pick his mom at home, we were really trying to help so asked a lot questions but there\u2019re so many loopholes in his stories so we have to let the guy deal with his own issues.\nI feel these two are both scammers, and if they are, what the hell? That a normal thing in Georgetown? Need to be more vigilant", "comments": [["I just read a thread in r/travel by a woman who was traveling in Barcelona and was asked out to tea by a random stranger. She declined, but someone mentioned it\u2019s a scam where you go out and are eventually presented with a huge bill.", "\"She was about to get teabagged in Barcelona...\"", "I've heard of this, on a Youtube video on a type of scam in Beijing.\nIn the video the mat salleh tourist was approached by a Chinese person who spoke English and said they were a tourist too, claiming to be from another part of China, who then asked them if they wanted to have lunch together or something like that, with the scam being that just like in Barcelona they'd be presented with a huge bill."], ["if those who come and ask for money giving you sad stories then yea its a scam.\nAs for inviting you for tea or a drink at a nearby coffee stall, so far in malaysia we dont have such scam yet, thry cant bring you to a kopitiam and get you charged for rm50 for a coffee. But still, just reject for your own safety.", "The \u201cteashop\u201d scam is here in Malaysia.\nIt works thru chat and dating apps. Not sure about in real life approach.\nThey will ask to meet up. And will ask you to meet at bars or similar. And ask you to buy very expensive drinks.\nStay safe.", "Ah, same scam in other Asian countries I think, the classic teahouse scam"], ["If anybody looks to you for money or randomly asking you out for tea, it's most likely a scam. They'll put on sad face, wear dirty clothes and look pitiful to play with your emotions. Locals don't entertain random strangers like that, do be careful."], ["The second one is probably a scam. It happened to me too. A man on a bike asked me if I'm a foreigner and speak English and I said yes. He said he needed money because he forgot his wallet. He only has his phone. I asked him why doesn't he use his phone to call a friend to help him? Or he can use his bike and ride back home. Then he left angry."], ["Most likely you\u2019re targeted because you don\u2019t look like a local."], ["Dude\u2019s so ugly his camera thinks his face is NSFW and blurred it out.", "Lol take my upvote"], ["I had a similar experience in Seoul when some random dude on the subway asked if i'd like to get a beer with him.. i declined as i was on the last train rushing back to Incheon and I wouldnt be able to find my way back on my own.\nNo idea if it was a scam or not in my case, but the invitation seemed genuine at that time.", "Yeah no, thats predatory behavior\nI believe its similar in Japan whereif you agree to go with someone after the last train went away is how they\u2019re getting you to sleep at his home\nIts definitely not a good idea to accept it"], ["Scam and vigilante more\nSorry it happen to you\nU probably stand out a lot since it is foreigner and u are soloing travelling , best be careful and dont go out at 11pm onward", "Yeah, thanks and also I think my backpack says it all, definitely became more vigilant after that"], ["Asking money usually scam but I think it's normal to invite tourist to have a tea or coffee if they already intended to go for a tea prior to meeting the tourist. Quite common in Penang. Don't think it's a scam."], ["There\u2019s a guy who claimed he\u2019s from Dubai and asked if I\u2019m a foreigner. I said yes and he asked to show my country currency to him while he showed me his USD. Dubai uses dirham and not USD. meanwhile, his partner keep telling us to put our hotel names in her phone. Sure as hell dodgy"]]}
{"title": "Sudden switch to meritocracy in education may cause unrest, says ex-MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj (PSM)", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u3fho/sudden_switch_to_meritocracy_in_education_may/", "num_comment": 59, "flairlabel": ["Education"], "header": "", "comments": [["Malaysia is not ready for meritocratic practices in its education system, according to Parti Sosialis Malaysia chairman Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj.\nHe said a sudden shift to meritocracy could exacerbate political and social unrest if it resulted in professional courses being filled with an overwhelming majority of non-Bumiputera students.\n\u201cAny system must be fair to all. This is also not something that is politically feasible or acceptable. It\u2019s going to cause a lot of unhappiness,\u201d he told FMT in an exclusive interview.\nProposals for university admissions to be based on merit have arisen out of discontent with the current quota system by which non-Malays from lower economic backgrounds have missed out on opportunities for higher education.\nTo be fair, I think the Dr. is just pointing out the sad reality that many in the public sphere of Malaysia today probably won't be ready for a meritocratic education system (or as close to meritocracy as it can be), not that he's personally against a meritocratic system.\nHell, not too long ago in 2018, there was huge rally in KL because the conservative forces in this country don't agree with Malaysia ratifying a UN treaty calling for an end to all forms of racial discrimination.\nAnti ICERD rally: So, what's the estimate?\nWhat would happen if such a laudable policy was simply proposed today? The Unity government would be criticized left, right and center for being 'anti-Malay' and 'taking away' Bumiputera rights, and the gullible will believe in this narrative.", "I think this is something that some people here on Reddit cannot appreciate and comprehend. While most people on this subreddit want social reforms and eradication of race-based rhetoric, mathematically the entire r/malaysia is only a drop in the ocean of Malaysia\u2019s population, most of whom are still stuck in the ethnic dogmas.\nAt one event after Belanjawan 2024, the organisers made it clear that they were pushing for the government to introduce the GST or the VAT. When Anwar got up on stage for his keynote speech, he said that reforms \u201cmust be gradual and sequential\u201d as doing the opposite would only raise the ire of the people and perhaps burden them. OP already gave good examples on the reasons the Malay electorate quickly turned on Pakatan the first time it took over the government.\nRealistically, we can\u2019t change people\u2019s mindsets in a snap of a finger. And the government ultimately has to follow the tide as it needs to stay in power, lest there would be a prolonged political instability. America took over a century to do away with racial discrimination practices, and it was only less than two decades ago that it legalised same-sex marriage.", "America took over a century to do away with racial discrimination practices\nTbf if something is not achievable within our lifetime, it might as well be impossible / pointless.", "if it resulted in professional courses being filled with an overwhelming majority of non-Bumiputera students\ni kindda agree if people have this assumption set as default. but we have done this before and it goes the other way around really badly. :26561:", "Interesting! Could I get some sources on that?", "https://www.dapmalaysia.org/all-archive/English/2002/may02/bul/bul1598.htm\nDAP welcomes the move by the government to implement a selection system based completely on merit for entry into public universities this year (2002)\nThe announcement of the successful enrolment of students into public universities this year has seen the increase of Bumiputra student intake to 68.9% of the total enrolment while enrolment of non-Bumiputra students has declined to 31.1% (Chinese-26.4% and Indian-4.7%)\nfor comparison the previous quota that was used prior to that year was:\nMalay 55% ( increase to 68.9)\nChinese 35% (decrease to 26.4)\nIndian 10% (decrease to 4.7)", "Tbf, \u2018merit\u2019 is a metric ripe for manipulation", "Read the full report, the title is \"3 Steps to Restore the Confidence of Non-Bumiputra Students in STPM\".\nThe decrease in enrolment of non-Bumiputra students had been attributed to the drastic decline of the number of non-Bumiputra applicants due to the fact that not many Chinese and Indian students were interested to pursue STPM.\nHow ? \"Chinese students make up only 22% of the total applicants while 5.33% are Indian students.\"\nWhy ?\n\"many who have scored good grades in their SPM examination and have good prospect of being admitted into public universities. Their choice is understandable as sitting for the STPM is a \u201chigh risk\u201d move, as is does not guarantee a place for them in their preferred courses in the public universities due to the restricted places under the quota system. \"\nRead full below.\nDeputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim revealed that Chinese students make up only 22% of the total applicants while 5.33% are Indian students. The low application by non-Bumiputra students shows that many Chinese and Indian students have no confidence in the Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) and thus many of them refused to further their studies to Form 6 after they have sat for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) but instead opted to study in private colleges pursuing twinning programs or professional courses. This includes many who have scored good grades in their SPM examination and have good prospect of being admitted into public universities. Their choice is understandable as sitting for the STPM is a \u201chigh risk\u201d move, as is does not guarantee a place for them in their preferred courses in the public universities due to the restricted places under the quota system. This undeniably is a more secured option but at the same time creates a lot of financial burden for parents who have to fork out a large sum of money to finance their children\u2019s high tuition fees in private colleges and their cost of living in cities.", "if it resulted in professional courses being filled with an overwhelming majority of non-Bumiputera students\ndosent matter. the point is on one year they do quota and another year they do merit and there are noticeable difference in both year. the system did change but the scenario that people think will happen does not happen and somehow become way worst\nfast forward 10 years later (2013) Lim Kit Siang still complain about how merit system was worst then quota.", "Seems to be this might have something to do with the Matriculation system still being on the quota 90:10 system?\nAs pointed out by the article you linked, that system remains and if a substantial portion of university admission are given to matriculation students, you would logically see a drop since the \"backstop\" mechanism that keeps STPM students filled in would be gone.\nWould love a good study/analysis on the mechanics of that if anyone has it, seems like a bunch of research to actually drill down to the possinle causes.", "Then it\u2019s not fair to capable nons who should rightfully fill the place. That in itself is a great disservice to the nation n much unbeneficial to bumis"], ["Pain now, gain later"], ["The way to do it is by first starting a \"no one left behind\" policy in education.\n1st step: get a lot more teachers, like 30% more than what we have now at least.\n2nd step: You suck at studying? Failing your \"insert subject\"? You join after school class, mandatory. Qualified guidance counsellor to 1 to 1 go through what's the student's problem is and helping them to fix it. No go home loiter, we make sure you pass, by understanding why you can't understand. Move you to syllabus more suitable to your aptitude.\nThen we go towards a more meritocracy education system.", "Last time in my primary school, which was a SJKC, used to run this kind of system during the year of UPSR. All of us would have to attend additional classes after school every day.", "as if malaysia has enough money to hire qualified and non abusive guidance counsellor hahaahha", "Well we have enough money to hire the largest civil servant to population ratio.\nProbably train/ transition them in, or they can quit and try their luck in private sector.\nIt's a matter of wanting to do it or not.\nI mean we suddenly got money to complete the shelved LRT2 stations no? That was what? 5 billion?", "I mean we suddenly got money to complete the shelved LRT2 stations no? That was what? 5 billion?\nNot comparable (though I don't disagree with the rest of your post).\nIt's a lit easier to obtain loans and investment for tangible infrastructures than it is for the nebulous gift of education.", "I think I said this because recently Tony Pua went to a podcast called \"are we ok\" to say they shelved those stations because its not feasible at current area population usage.\nI understand your counter argument but the point I'm making is they can stomach a bad investment without considering the fiscal return, against the guy I'm replying that said they \"don't have the money\"", "The problem here is that assuming all teachers are fine and not emotionally abusive.", "By that logic, nothing can be done to anything; because one component of a larger picture will always be broken sometime, somewhere.\nA thing to be concerned about yes. But very unproductive to not do anything because something might be a problem.\nToo lazy to do an analogy, so something something, Murphy's Law.", "i'm not against the addition of teachers, i'm just saying that both the addition of teachers into the teaching sector and implementing regular check-up of the teachers should be in place (which is unlikely to happen)"], ["From free tongkats to free electric wheelchairs for generations, now you expect them to make an effort?"], ["Should not have quota for certain courses that have bad consequences when small mistakes are made e.g. nuclear science, medicine, structural, geotechnical, aviation etc"], ["When will Malaysia ever be fully ready, actually?", "never"], ["isnt meritocracy = fairness? what's the point of graduating with tongkat?", "no, it is not. imo A+ with 20 hours of tuition a week is worth much less than A- while tending to a parent's nasi lemak stall every day. wouldn't it be much worse if that bright student, who overcome such adversity to get their results, still wasn't supported and left to waste away in the end?"], ["Survival of the fittest, scared is for the weak"], ["I don't get it. Are we not using meritocracy in tertiary education except for UITM/Matriculation?", "Keyword is matriculation."], ["What a stupid country and policy lol. Enjoy the brain drain"], ["They know if they play fair, public universities will be dominated by Cina"], ["Sudden change, yes. Gradual change, no.\nKeep the racial quota for now, but make it b40 malay only. Need to check income tax to verify. It helps the country because families who want to enjoy this needs to declare income, more data for the government and potential higher income tax collection.\nWe can open it up to other races after the majority are used to the concept."], ["SMKCs: meh"], ["Instead of heaving Matrik/University quotas.\nHow about with give free tuition to Bumiputera instead ? Like we open a free tuition center for all the Bumis, filled with the best teachers. If you cannot succeed even with the best teachers helping you for free, I don't think university is for you."], ["Then ask why companies want to hire non Malays? Racist ke?"], ["There\u2019s a white horse in the room thats never talked about. The average IQ of Malays(and Indians) fall substantially behind the Chinese. This will be reflected in academic performance. This is not easily corrected and will take generations. So mediocracy will not work for Malays for the longest time."], ["Allocate seats as per race distribution, so roughly 10% to Indians, 30% to Chinese and 60% to Malays. Use meritocracy within each category. Its not hard.\nThis way Malays are ensured allocation, while there\u2019s still a mechanism to ensure seats for the highest performers within each category.", "Well if that's the case you gotta allocate proportionately to sabah and sarawak folks as well, Iban, dayak, kadazan etc.\nMalaysia isn't just peninsula", "Agreed.", "I was gonna agree and upvote the idea but that last sentence is distasteful.", "Not a fan of this. My perceived aim of public university education is to give lower income students to affordable venue to better themselves and improve social mobility. Instead of making the distribution based on race, we should make it based on socioeconomic level and academic performance. High performers from a high income family don't need public university ecudation because their family can afford private university education for them.", "That would be the ideal situation. I completely agree. My comment was trying to be realistic and ensure a proportionate level of malay seats.", "You made a valid point that I felt was worth looking into deeper and definitely one for discussion, until...\nIf you don\u2019t agree with this you\u2019re a racist.\n...because apparently this isn't a discussion and if I find a flaw in it I'm a racist lol. Sorry, get over yourself.", "or distribute based on familial income."], ["Don\u2019t worry. Someone will pop up and say ketuanan doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s something imaginary cooked up by the Chinese Malaysians on Reddit."], ["A pure meritocracy would benefit the rich more than the poor. After all, the rich has access to better resource, food, school. They can afford to go to tuition. They can afford to focus in afterschool activities (is it called coop?) for better points while the poor might have to spend their day helping with family businesses and maybe take care of their younger siblings while their parents are out working.\nIn the end, the gap between the rich and the poor would only grow larger. Meritocracy is fine and all but a quota system should still be implemented, so stop acting like it's a bad thing. In fact, isn't all public universities like this? As far I know, UM is under this system.", "They can afford to focus in afterschool activities (is it called coop?)\nMy time it was called Ko-K (Pronounced Co-Kay. Short form for Ko-kurikulum, which is the Co-curriculum in Malay.)", "Quota suppose to be universal as in for the poor or b40 - and not race based. Not all nons are t20 and not all Malays are from b40."], ["Isu is not about competition at all for Malays. Its about having the unis opened but sjk/smjk still being there.", "Sjk and smk accept students from any race.", "They can accept animals and plants even. The sentiment remains that the malays consider them divisive.", "To be fair if a llama can make RM1 = USD1 , I will gladly vote the llama to be our next PM.", "sembang kencang anyone can"], ["So ? How to increase its country economy? Will it be continue of 500 years of being bully by other nation or prosperity after 100 years ?"], ["We should do it slowly and gradually instead"], ["Malaysia ni semua kena sudden sudden. Kalau nk pelan2, kena kaji dulu, kena cuba try test dulu takkan jadi. Sebab sem depan tukar menteri dia jadi lain pulak."]]}
{"title": "Why are museums so underwhelming in Malaysia?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u9no5/why_are_museums_so_underwhelming_in_malaysia/", "num_comment": 82, "flairlabel": ["Tourism & Travel"], "header": "I visit museum whenever I visit a new city or county. With Malaysia, I find the museum really underwhelming. Even the national museum is not really up to standarde for a National museum. I been to museum in US, Europe, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Thailand, Vietnam.\nI say Malaysia museum of all sorts are so underwhelming here.I don't see much attention to detail or story telling. Only walls of information like a powerpoint presentation or copy paste of general knowledge. There is no artifact on display or just badly curated.\nI love history, arts, and culture. I truly wish Malaysia step up it's game.", "comments": [["We don't have the habit of preserving our culture and history as a society unfortunately. Agree with you that our museums are really bad, doesn't inspire and feel \"museum\" enough\nOnly one I'd say that feels contemporary enough to be an actual museum in Peninsula is probably the Bank Negara Museum. Otherwise the newly opened Borneo museum on Kuching is also up there!", "Been to the bank negara museum, can confirm it's quite good\nThat said, maybe I'm biased but the old Kuching museum has a certain charm to it, but yes it's not up to par with more modern museums", "I think the comment above was referring to the newly opened Borneo Cultures Museum in Kch, it\u2019s world class!", "Yes, I am aware, but I have never been to the new one since leaving Malaysia. While the old Brooke era museum is full of childhood memories for me\nWould love to visit the new museum at some point in the future tho", "Ah woops, gotchu. I think the old Brooke era Sarawak Museum is being refurbished at the moment, but if you haven't been back in a while, you should also add the (kind of new) Brooke Gallery in Fort Margherita to your list.", "I actually came back about a few months back but just stayed in Sibu for two weeks to see my fam lmao", "Singaporean here - I just went to bank Negara museum and several days ago and gotta say that my kids did have fun. But plenty of interactive stuff broke/wasn\u2019t working so that\u2019s a huge bummer for my kids", "Would like to piggyback the top comment but the Islamic Arts Museum in KL is incredibly beautiful and one of the best experiences in KL. Not that this is important, I\u2019m not Muslim myself but have visited this museum multiple times.\nBonus. Its a great place for dates!", "i see you JAKIM :26562:"], ["Mostly my opinion:\nMalaysia, through most of its history, stone construction has not been the norm. Mostly the locals use wood. So we don't have lots of preserved indigenous artifacts beyond a few hundred years. On top of that, much of Malaysia's ancient history is oral and tribal. Much of it has probably been lost. There is a relative lack of things like Buddhist, Muslim or Hindu constructions that are very old unlike say Thailand, India, Vietnam and China.\nOn top of that Malaysia has a history of \"borrowed\" culture going back in history. Arab traders bringing Muslim religion and language. The Indians and Chinese too. Then came the waves of Western colonialists. In this sense, Malaysia has been a \"melting pot\" being at the center of many sea trade routes.\nEven things we consider \"traditional\" in Malaysia like the royalties etc appear to borrow heavily from traditions that are not indigenous. (Sultan, for example, is an arabic term) The Majapahit empire, for example, is Javanese-Hindu and is not centered around the current political boundaries of Malaysia. Then there is the influence from Thailand that is primarily Buddhist.\nIn a sense, this doesn't blend well with the current political ruling class that like to craft a narrative that Malaysia as predominantly Muslim and thus being Muslim is somehow central to Malaysia's past. History would point out a much richer and more diverse origins of Malaysian tradition and culture but this is actually quite politically inconvenient.\nThis probably disconnects many Malaysians from things going back more than a few generations. This is probably reflected in the academics as well as how things get curated in museums.", "You're not lying. There is literally an UMNO Museum In Melaka, literally at the historical area below A Famosa and with the other museums.", "I went there earlier this month and that particular museum is probably not gonna last that much longer. I would be suprised if it still exist beyond 2024.", "Why? Genuinely curious", "2nd floor isn't open to public, not that it has anything good anyways. And I was the only person who went there for the day (as of 3pm based on the logbook). Also no more aircond, which is a sure sign they are dying.", "Ah i see. When I was in melaka a few years back I was there and wanted to enter but it was closed hahah", "And we also have to contend with the fact each state museum wants to house their own artefacts (which Malaysia in general has very limited amount to begin with). The State Museums sometimes have much better artefact collections than the National Museum.\nAnd ofc, there's also the obvious issue of funding. Malaysian Museums in general (rightfully) have very low admission fee. A lot of them you don't have to pay a single cent.", "Wish I can upvote you twice. Super true", "Man. I want to print this out and just hand it out to people. Multi-purpose answer for most Malaysia FAQs", "This is the right answer.", "This I believe is the real reason. Politics and religion."], ["Hopefully this could improve sooner than later.\nThe one in Kuching, Borneo Cultures Museum is amazing though. If you like museums, I think its worth a visit when you do visit Kuching. Being the newest built 'big' museum really do wonders. The facility inside is nice, clean and modern. I don't really have an eye for architecture, but from the looks of it, the architecture of the building itself is well designed as well. Could spend an entire day there if you actually go through the exhibits slowly and read through everything.", "i really love this museum too. i went there during their spirit showcase (im not sure if it's permanent or not). the vibe is amazing, the showcase is amazing, the layout inside is amazing, the interactive showcase is amazing as well. 10/10 would recommend.\nalso i went to islamic arts museum in kl couple months ago. while it's not as amazing as sarawak and has no interactive feature, the paintings and items on showcase are quite a curious sight to see too.\nand perhaps you might want to take your kids to klcc petrosains and planetarium kl if they're into interactive museums. my kids love those a lot.", "I can vouch for this. There's a lot of heart put into it, it's modern(as of right now), the museum is very interactive, there's a merchandise store, it's a good tourist attraction, the entrance fee is also pretty cheap. I spent like 4 hours there reading and going through every artifacts and taking tons and tons of pictures. Sadly, I didn't get to experience the last floor entirely because the museum was about to close. I will definitely go there again in the future. It's a good family visit too however children tend to get bored easily but even then, there is an interactive section, made for kids (and fun loving adults) so even kids would love the experience.\nIf you're visiting Kuching, make sure to go there. It's genuinely a good museum and the largest one in Malaysia too.", "The State Museums are all generally very good. Perak Museum, Kota Tinggi Museum, Stadhuys (and the museums surrounding it), Seri Menanti Museum, and so on."], ["I would say have you visited our museum in the late 80's or early 90's it would be a lot more interesting. I remember a room full of weapon relics like keris of all shape and sizes, musket and pistols used by the British army when they colonized our country, as well as a replica of tin mining ship the size of a car. Another fond memory I had was the longest rotan found in the jungle of Malaysia, it was like 400 meters long (I think lol), they fixate it on the ceiling of the showcase and have it looped around the room several dozen times to fit its massive length.\nVisited the museum again with an Australian friend like 15 years ago, that time the museum is already fallen into a sorry state. The room full of keris shrunk into a single cabinet, most showrooms are basically empty. Such a sad fate for a place that holds the many amazing things in the past.", "Yeah, all thanks to the legendary head curator, the late Shahrum Yub back then - he really has the passion to do his job. Read his interview once in Mastika about how his team handled the tomb of King Tut for \"Tombs Around The World\" and it already make me go wow. Those period was the peak of National Museum.\nIt takes both the leaders passion and the gov passion to return it in similar state again, which per current Malaysia gov standard...uhhhhh......"], ["The Islamic arts museum is REALLY good. Serious kudos to the management there. Highly recommend. But yeah Muzium Negara was so sad.", "Agree. Very comparable to the one I\u2019ve been to overseas.", "And cheap too! RM7 for the permanent exhibit and RM4-6 for the rotational one. They're also the only centre for restoration in Semenanjung. Most museums use them for repairs and restoration. They also used to have art classes like calligraphy.", "I love the Islamic Arts Museum. Easily one of my favourite museums of anywhere I've visited."], ["The Borneos Culture Museum in Kuching is pretty good. Went there last year and thoroughly enjoyed myself."], ["Underfunded. Im guessing the only budget they get is for staff, electricity, water and keeping the place clean. Nothing more.", "Yep underfunded and most of the history stuffs are under appreciated as well in Malaysia.", "Let's normalise not saying \"stuffs\" folks"], ["Many of the muzeums here were old and wasn't kept up with the latest technology. If you have the time, pleaee visit the relatively newly built Borneo Museum in Kuching, Sarawak. Some people say that it's even better than Muzium Negara"], ["Because it didn't match with our Arab descendant narrative."], ["I was at Islamic Art museum yesterday with my foreign friend. I was blown away cos it\u2019s a world class standard and he really liked it too."], ["Why bother with museums when you can see real-life dinosaurs roaming around us in daily life.\nIt's pretty easy to spot them really, they're the ones shouting ketuanan melayu."], ["Imo it\u2019s because Malaysian don\u2019t view Museums as interesting or a tourist attraction. Most Malaysians view museums as boring and only for history. The best Museum I\u2019ve been to is the National History Museum in London. We should have a cultural change to value art and history more."], ["You went to the wrong place? Go to the British museum as they nicked all the good stuff! /s"], ["When I went to the National Art Gallery in Malaysia, I couldn't help but imagine some government bureaucrat saying, \"we need an art museum like a serious country\" and so they came up with a really poor, half-assed imitation of a Western art museum.\nWhen I went to the Islamic Arts Museum I had the opposite impression. I felt like the backers authentically cared about showcasing the diversity of Muslim cultures around the world and through history and did something impressive.\nSmaller local museums similarly fall into two camps. There are some real hidden gems in different parts of the country, but then there are some pathetic misses."], ["It's easier for the politicians to control the masses if the masses do not learn from the past ;)", "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past"], ["The artifacts are probably in British Museum /s\nJokes aside, even the buildings are not as appealing or majestic as museums in other countries. It is hard to attract tourists or locals to come and see them.\nShoutout to Museum of Islamic Arts tho, they are really nice."], ["Museums are what is known as sociological expressions, in that they act as cultural conduits linking present to past. They therefore tend to be very well established and appreciated in areas of the world where there is a strong sense of connecting past, present and future together to inform society.\nMalaysia as a whole is not very interested in its past except in niche scenarios ( like most Penangnite who are Chinese or Indians are very interested in Penang history from the early 17th century onwards ). Malaysia is more interested in ethnic identification, which may mean one is interested in looking at the past except in the case of Malaysia the ethnic identification is a legal entity as well so it becomes more a focus on the present and less about the past.\nAs a result, museums become less important. Cultural things of the current becomes more important, such as existing festivals and rituals ( it does not need the past to be valid ).", "Chat GPT ah bro \ud83d\ude02"], ["I always thought muzium is very boring since I'm grow up in Malaysia, until one day i step into taiwan muzium."], ["Probably because we don't have a lot to preserve lmao. Try other museums instead of just tue national museum (like the perak man one) since our museums are split so many places"], ["You can try visiting the Malaysian Chinese Museum in Serdang. Ive been there earlier this year, and it is by far the best museum ive been to in Malaysia"], ["Because real Malaysian heritage is shopping and eating. Look at the number of huge shopping malls"], ["keeping the people dumb is how 3rd worlds control their population.\nsmart citizens will change things, dumb citizens will follow along."], ["Really? Have you tried Dewan Rakyat?"], ["I hate malaysia museum"], ["Since we're all here anyway - are there any museums in the Klang Valley that redditors are impressed with?", "Islamic arts Museum. I reckon it's good because it's privately owned. Their collection is extensive.", "Which one ah", "Next to Masjid Negara", "Idk if it's in Klang valley but I loved the orang asli museum, I also dk if it's up to you guy's standard but yeah", "The one that\u2019s next to Muzium Negara? Pretty sure that counts as Klang Valley!\nIt focuses on OA craft and artwork, and is quite good in my opinion.\nOr did you mean the one at Ayer Keroh outside Melaka?"], ["Cos Malaysians are very under-educated (by international standards) and basically extremely ignorant. Religious schools still teach evolution is fake\u2026so yeah\u2026cool level of general knowledge, guys..", "Religious schools still teach evolution is fake\nDo they? I came from SK Agama and did alot of religion study outside school in HS. The ustat and ustazah never said it's fake. They just did not mention it and ignored the question when asked. The best reply I ever got was \"wallahualam\".", "My and my wife religious schools were pretty aggressive that it wasn\u2019t true. This is retard-level education"], ["Becos we never conquered any other countries and steal their treasures and we kena conquered and our treasures all at British museum.....", "Laughs in Singapore National Museum, Art Museum, Asian Civilisation Museum etc etc.\nBut no seriously Malaysia\u2019s museum is kinda underwhelming for a country this developed. It was strange to me that visiting museums is not part of the tour when visiting Malaysia."], ["Our museums have only like 50 yrs of history compared to other countries, who tf wants to visit? Defo not me. All displaying cultural underwear and panties across different eras \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 as my dad likes to say in Cantonese \u201c\u770b\u4ec0\u4e48\u9a6c\u6765\u5e95\u88e4\u201d"], ["Because all the good stuff were taken away by the colonizers when they were here hundred of years ago. If you have the chance to go to prominent museums in europe, you can see how much of our stuff were taken back there. Same thing happened to all the place where they colonized.", "Singapore's museums are really good tho, even their art ones.", "Because we got bajet to obtain exhibits mah. Collectors and owners also have peace of mind lending their objects to us because they know anything they lend will be secure and well-taken care of.", "The fuck you on about. Taipei and Seoul museums are nice. Also as others have said Singapore. Even Japan and their museums is about Japanese culture not so much about their colonizing past.", "Example, Klang bell, a 1200years old bell from bronze age found in klang. Taken by british and currently displayed in british museum. Also look at the database of british museum, around 3000 artifacts from malay peninsula alone in their collection.everything good were looted."], ["Idk, museum always seems like a creepy place. I went one in melaka, there was an empty cradle with a doll (probably) inside with voice of crying baby and angklong background music.\nAlso went to the terengganu one, there was this traditional clothes section. Put inside a small room that looks exactly like my late grandma\u2019s room. Also creepy. I hv the photo but it\u2019s buried too deep inside my gallery.\nEdit: also good idea by op but i dont think the price will be rm5 per entry anymore."], ["The Islamic art museum is pretty good"], ["Suggest you try other things in Malaysia i.e food hunting. This museum stuff is so politically fucked up that it's not worth your time."], ["The Borneo Cultures Museum in Kuching is absolutely fantastic. Huge, excellent collection, modern design and great use of technology, interactive, very well curated. Though the Sabah State Museum in Kota Kinabalu is indeed rather sad."], ["because most of the museum worthy collection is privately owned and owners dont want to part with it"], ["Our national arty gallery is pretty good tho"], ["Even the scammers knew elsewhere to rob"], ["Bro Kuching has the best museums here. Check them out."]]}
{"title": "Malay Racism by local Chinese", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u4epl/malay_racism_by_local_chinese/", "num_comment": 388, "flairlabel": [], "header": "Edit : those comments he made it sounds like a low key jokes. Since it\u2019s repetitive and explicitly mentioned Islam Malay race, I don\u2019t find it funny. Futhermore, at the beginning of the trip we almost got into an accident because of his distraction using his phone.\ni recently hired a private driver from Ipoh to Cameron Highlands (booked a month ahead) to show my foreign friends around CH. Note : I don\u2019t drive, that\u2019s why I hired a driver.\nUpon picking up he did mentioned to my foreign friend about the boycott of Starbucks, etc and how some states are very strict religious (Kelantan, Kedah). I was like oookay but brushed it off. While in the car, he made another comment about some attractions in CH where mostly are \u201cIslam Malays like you lah\u201d (his exact words) dressed up nicely and take photos. Again, I brushed it off cos yeah it\u2019s true and didn\u2019t think much of it. I just thought ok his kind of jokes lah.\nLater on during the drive, he made some other comments which unfortunately I don\u2019t remember anymore, but it started to made me uncomfortable. I did mentioned later on to my foreign friends about it. They don\u2019t really understand or gets what the driver said because of his slang. Some of the remarks was when one car at a junction try to selit driving into the lane, he said \u201cthis Malay ahh, I will not give a chance in my lane\u201d. \u201cBest time to visit CH is during puasa month where all Malays is fasting. No jam\u201d. \u201cAll this Malays lah that go out, we Chinese don\u2019t go out cos we don\u2019t like jam\u201d.. well, I saw a bunch of Chinese too. Mostly family with kids. When we passed by one of the tea plantation, there were so many cars parked at the road side. He made another comment \u201csee, this all Islam Malay people like you lah\u201d. One of my foreign friend asked \u201cwhat did you said\u201d and he ignored him. When we were looking for a parking lot, one Malay couple was about to leave. I said \u201cthank god to this Malay we got a parking spot in front of the plantation\u201d. Not sure he heard me or not.\nI looked up his Facebook page, all of his customers are foreigners and Chinese. Imagine, what kind of things he said to these people.. He shouldn\u2019t have accept my trip when he knew well in advance I am a Malay.\nI have never ever experience such a racism in my life, let alone in my own country. I have Chinese, indian, all kind of races friends and we got along well.", "comments": [["As a former grab driver, many hired drivers didn\u2019t land in that profession due to their intellectual prowess.", "lmao... i agree with you. just read any mandarin version grab driver fb group. they amount of hate and vitriol they have toward grab and the customers is insane. i saw one post not long ago scolding people for giving rm2 tip.", "What? Grab drivers expect people pay tip now?"], ["Leave an honest review", "Was thinking the same. Will do some time..", "Should just give him the middle finger before you leave.", "I\u2019m too baikkk \ud83d\ude05 when he dropped us off, he said thank you great trip. It was silent from all of us \ud83d\ude02", "Lol I'm getting downvoted for telling people to give their middle fingers to racists. Such is the Reddit community.", "i'd be happy too, got paid driving, not getting yelled at for risking customer's lives in car, talking a whole ton of brainless shits due to being so overconfidently smart and yet not a word of disapproval and lastly, felt like an emperor doing the peasants a service.\nlast last, kena viral pun xde video kah gambar kah... flex on \"kita diam ja dia macam syok ja.. dalam minda dan hati \"die tu bodoe\" tapi yg bodoe tu tak rasa langsung.. relek ja.. syok ja.\nLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOL\nHAHAHAHAHAHA\n>Insert age\n>insert fun fun\n:26555:"], ["You were unlucky to have met such a driver. I hope you take action and report/leave a review to him. It's not Okay to take racism straight to the face like this.", "It's good if he/she does reveal the name or even better if there is a video because I don't want this to be a rage bait post.", "It was indeed. I will definitely will a review on his Facebook page", "", "You and I both know what I meant la, don't nitpick on gammer or sentence like that la comeon", "Sounds more like a you issue ngl, what the comment you're replying to seems very clear in intention.\nObviously all racism is bad, but when it's straight to the face it definitely affects you more, so it's worse to experience/encounter day to day"], ["So many comments here are just ridiculous.\nFirst things first, racism is never justified. It is pure discrimination, plain and simple. What that driver did, is sadly, a rather common occurrence and I am always disgusted by it. You could argue he was \"joking\" but based on OP, it has clearly went past any benefit of the doubt for it to be a \"joke\".\nHalf the comments here trying to justify the racism with things that mainly boil down to. -paraphrasing A) There's institutionalised racism in the other way. B) Nons have no special right\nIt makes the anger / negative attitude UNDERSTANDABLE, but not JUSTIFIED. Just like how we can understand a fear of small spaces (claustrophobia), but often not justifiable.\nHalf of the comments here stating things like 'now you understand how the nons feel.' Not to discredit your personal experience, I'm sure you have your reason to say that, and it might be your own personal experience, but saying that is akin to saying 'now you know how I feel' to a covid patient after recovering from covid. How is saying that helping anyone or beneficial? You didn't choose to be the target of racism, nor did OP.\nThe other thing I noted is that quite a few Malay commented how they used to be vocal about abolishing bumi rights and so on, but have stopped because they don't see a point in doing so anymore because it's a dammed if you do, damned if you don't situation. This just proves 2 wrongs don't make a right. The civil rights movement with MLK would not gain any success if it did not gain the support of the president of that time, a white man supporting a black man. Our common enemy are the racist. The supremacist. Not based on what we put under 'kaum' when we fill in our own personal information. How are we going to move forward to true equality when we keep showing each other hostility?", "The common malay are just as powerless about these policies. I'm not an employer or a landlord or a politician. All I can do to help is shut down racist comments made from my family and friends. To quote Satrapi \"The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me\"", "Absolutely agree, however I'm of the opinion that if the \"common Malay\" is not rallying against obvious racist policies, there's even less incentive for those in power to do anything about it.\nSo what you're doing in shuting down racist comments is already enough and should be applauded for that. Keep that up and maybe some day, some one who actually has power decides the status quo needs to be changed. Small steps can lead to big changes.\nAbsolutely agree with your quote about the difference between us and government. That's why we should all come together.", "Racism is racism dude, stop justifying racism. You can't justify racism by one race is because of this or that. That's total bullshit.", "What you are seeing here is just people thoughts and facts, I don\u2019t think most of them are justifying the racism including myself.\nA lot Malaysian who are here are more exposed to western values and modern acceptable norms. Especially the woke culture.\nMalaysia is in a very different place and time compared to the west.\nOur affirmative action isn\u2019t comparable to others countries but make no mistake, discrimination is discrimination and it will create the same problem as those that are oppressed, no matter in lighter or heavier forms. What the OP experienced and others that commented here is the result of the affirmative action.\nThe country will never really heals unless people start talking instead of pointing fingers", "I agree, people can express their thoughts, negative or otherwise. Facts are facts and nothing can change it. The reason why I say there seems to be a hint of justification of racism is based on context and usage of these facts by certain comments.\nParaphrasing and shorten from below comments -\nA: He is racist. All the talk about Malay supremacy, come to penang and you will hear talks of Chinese Supremacy. Same bullshit, applies to both. -> (Anectodal evidence, expressing thoughts, but generally in agreement that the driver is racist and therefore bad.)\nB: Chinese have special rights that malay are currently enjoying? -> (Trying to justify/reason that one party is more/less wrong to be racist due to the existence of \"special rights\" ; Usage of facts, the existence of special rights to try and justify racism.)\nC: We do, its called economic power. But the affirmative action policy is rotten and only benefits the politician instead of the bumiputera. -> (Went the opposite direction and used a common talking point of racist to justify certain racist policies)\nI agree with you as well, in regards to what OP experienced is the result of affirmative action, as well as how the country will never really heal until we stop pointing finger. But evidently, there are so many finger pointing here despite how \"a lot of malaysian here are more exposed to modern acceptable norms\". Hence my expression of dissapointment that there are quite a number of finger pointing going on here.", "If you asked me, it's better to stop reading these kind of post and just enjoy your weekend if op him/herself can't provide any proof to what they post because it is possible he/she is just rage baiting people.", "Now that you mentioned 'rage baiting', I do have to ask. I often see people suspect similar posts for rage baiting, is it a common enough occurence to warrant such a suspicion?\nSide note: OP's story seems believable enough to me, and I've seen it happen before myself. (That doesn't neccesarily mean this post is genuine). But IMO, I am much more dissapointed in the comments if anything, the post itself 'appears' genuine to me.", "Right? I'm chinese and I've seen cina uncles like OP's driver. Its believable to me.", "It's hard for me to say how common it is but I have seen post that's down right questionable. This is why as a rule of thumb always believe these kind of story with mountain of salt or even better don't believe at all since it's op that made this claim and it's up to them to show proof because the person just have to be a good storyteller to make it seem believable.", "Fair enough, I agree with you.\nPersonally, I was just expressing my disdain for a huge part of the comment section whether the OP's claim is true or not.\nHope you have a great weekend ahead!", "Lol if it's racism by Malay it will be raining upvotes but when it's racism by Chinese to Malay suddenly it's a false flag op?\nThis is like saying black Americans can't be racists."], ["I'm non but I can imagine being in your place and already felt disgusted by the driver's behaviour. Also felt a secondary embarassment for your friend.", "Thanks for your understanding. Like I said, I have never experienced such thing, neither oversea nor Malaysia. I also felt embarrassed to my friend and one of them wanted to say \u201cenough with the Malay comments\u201d if the driver say more about it."], ["There are racist in every race.", "True. But the hypocrisy by the Chinese is what that is pissing people off.\nMalays are very honest about their racism and despite institutional racism I\u2019ve never experienced racism personally from Malays (I\u2019m Indian).\nMeanwhile the Chinese act like oppressed minority and treat other minorities like rubbish. I went to SJKC and trust me, you\u2019ll know what the Chinese really think of you if you can understand the vile things they say behind your back.", "As an ethnic Chinese, I have to agree with your last sentence.", "Best part is they'll just say it even though you didn't do anything to/Interact with them, like say if you enter a lift or the same cable car or just minding your damn business queuing up for the train", "Thank you. They\u2019re the type who will use phrases like Satu Malaysia when it benefits them, but when it doesn\u2019t they will be racist as hell.", "I'm not Chinese I'm Malaysian?", "racism in any form is bad lol", "And generalizing like this is not racist? And your source is literally: Trust me bro.", "I think Indians would be well attuned to the nuances of racism on account of the Malaysian situation.", "He\u2019s just talking about his experience tho\u2026. Why are u mad?? Instead u should take it as a lesson to not being one of them racist people lol", "stop invalidating people\u2019s experience"], ["I'm chinese and I've seen cina uncles and aunties like this. This behaviour needs to go. I love tearing down all the bs logic in racist conversations. This one is FULL of it.\nIf you don't like Malay, why you take Malay client?\nAlso saying that 'Malays jam the road'..... bruh. They're here for a HOLIDAY, not tearing the place up etc. What you don't want their money is it?\nThese people just don't want Malays around. Whats worse is they won't acknowledge their racism."], ["You can find them here too, lurking always ready to jump in and unleash their closeted racism on certain topics and comments :29091::29091::29091::29091:", "Agreed, sometimes this subreddit Chinese (I am Chinese myself) is too aggressive in seeking out racism and kiasu, ends up being racist themselves", "I kena attacked many times already by them.", "Yeah perhaps because the ground was never equal to begin with , and the privileged keep asking for more ground", "Nothing worse than having to skirt around issues that would label one a race traitor. There are those who are happy to coexist together and forge ahead, and those who don't."], ["That driver might be one of the monyets here lol", "True, if there was a bingo card for typical r/malaysia redditor comments, he would have gotten bingo twice"], ["It's just a fact that there are hella lot of racist people in the country, regardless of their race. It's the inevitable outcome of using race as the determining paradigm for policies, politics etc from the formation of the country until now. People are shaped by their lived realities -- doesn't excuse their behavior but does at least help us understand.", "Not an excuse .. he\u2019s a racist.", "Agree. He is racist. All those blab aboutMalay supremacy, just come to Penang and hear those Penang Lang talk about Chinese Supremacy there in Penang. Same all bullshit. It apply to both.", "Pretty much. Don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. Just have to accept Malaysia look nice on the outside only, multi culture this that. In the inside, we have people like this.", "Chinese have privileged special right and special pass malay are currently enjoying?", "We do, it\u2019s called economic power. But the affirmative action policy is corrupt at its core as well, instead of helping the bumiputera it only serves to benefit the politicians", "Does it provided free by the government? Also any chinese that isn't poor = stole land and resources from malay forefather since british era for these kind of group , its their coded response when you try to say chinese economics in here , its not a plus and don't use it.", "Chinese help chinese, that means we had rich colonial era chinese hand down their knowledge and resources to other chinese. Notice how chinese SRJKC are generally bigger and better funded? Some employers are also quite racist, or just rather speak Chinese than speak other languages, so you see Chinese SME mostly filled with other Chinese. Education and resources trickle down from the colonial forefathers. Plus we work hard and we have a culture of prioritizing material wealth (Ang Pau, 8888, Fatt Fatt, Gong Xi Ni, Toto Magnum 4D, Genting).\nAll these combined have put Chinese in another tier economically compared to the rest. It will take time to equalise. But bumi special rights is making you racist, and because you are racist, you make them hate us and label us \u201cracist Chinese\u201d.\nThis is why I say bumi special rights only benefit politicians. Because it makes people like you racist against Malays, and it enforces the dislike that Malays have against the Chinese. It was just a bandage solution to prevent more killings.", "Yeah for the top 1% big crocs maybe ,and nobody is stopping them learning chinese , it has nothing to do with the average joe of lower or middle income regular people , but instead of hating them big crocs they decide to label chinese= rich and hate all the chinese instead\nDon't forget this is a place where a \"melayu malas\" gets you in jail while cina babi pendatang penjajah penipu gets your a fuck tons of likes.", "Nobody is stopping the employer from learning Malay either, they just chose not to.\nI agree there are many poor Chinese as well, and this has affected them just because of their race.\nDo you not realise that bumi rights have made both Chinese and Malay racist against each other? How can you not realise that? How can you blame them but not the 1% big crocs that implemented this policy in the first place? Why are you so hypocritical and not realise you are doing the same thing and label malay = racists and hate all of the Malays?", "You seem to suggest Chinese are somehow racist against Malays because of bumi laws. This is the biggest rubbish I\u2019ve heard in my life.\nExplain why Chinese treat Indians like garbage then. Shouldn\u2019t Chinese people sympathise with Indians for being a fellow minority and treat them like allies? Reality is Chinese people treat Indians like dirt beneath their shoes. I\u2019m Indian and I can safely say despite bumiputera laws, Malays have treated me better than Chinese by far. Go and ask any Indian people or other minorities from east Malaysia and they\u2019ll say the same.\nChinese people are simply racist because they think they\u2019re superior. They can\u2019t even be bothered to learn BM because they think it\u2019s beneath them.", "You seems to agree with the policy in the first place by saying chinese also have the privileged rights by dominating the economics imply we are equal and suddenly claim i hate all malay , i don't, but i can't blame people for being racist when one privileged side can get away scot free with being racist and other side goes to jail", "This applies to the malays too bro. Your average Malay may be tricked when told the Chinese took his money but in truth it was taken by the elite malays who send their kids overseas and vacay there every few months.\nI keep saying it's a class war not a race war but we are all too blinder by our resentment of the other races.", "Yes. It is call over sympathy. Malay are too soft hearted. These are the specialities that have been benefits for some time.", "That sounds like a privilage both parties enjoy", "https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Boi7KNsUTT4aEfqCYkWgxeM5LKExgsVz7J2Fpuvfe3EHSu89nEueenW7TsSwwSKol&id=100002268614992&mibextid=Nif5oz\nNothing looks too softhearted for me , i guess you're the gosok parang type , pls do it asap.", "Not the gosok parang type. The constitution is a social contract, breach it off means an act of war. It is better every one keep quit and just act according to the social contract. One less thing to worry about and let PMX do well in his Primeship", "The constitution is a social contract, breach it off means an act of war.\nThe constitution can be ammended, it's not something set in stone", "Something that we can Agree. We should change it. A nation needs to have only one strong identity. A one country rules by one government and one ruler.", "A nation needs to have only one strong identity. A one country rules by one government and one ruler.\nUhmm....", "You literally said its over sympathy for letting minorities have what they having rn , that means you think they shouldn't have any rights at all while they already a second class citizen. PMX who? The guy who literally just have the K-word pass?\nIm voting for pas next elections.", "Somehow it's all crickets among the toons who voted him in. He's only gonna get worse, this is just the cinematic trailer\nPas can easily win if they just stop saying idiotic things. These guys are practically handing it over to pn with their mismanagement but I guess it's a race to the bottom in Malaysia all day everyday since 2008", "Pas literally gain more vote by saying stupid thing , sembelih all kafir , x suruh cina potong lanjiao even humiliated sultan yet it becomes the reason wins the biggest, we are on a high speed lane of right with no return and anyone that doesn't think so is delusional.", "Far right and far left are both bad. How can be stable if the government itself wobble from left to right and vice versa.", "Owh. A PAS supporter. No wonder", "Just to bring everything down faster.", "I do think that is not an excuse to justify the racism displayed by the drivers. It is more like a sad reality on why this happens and how is this still happening. It is not going away any time soon, all race will come to face this problem.", "How exactly does fighting fire with fire solve the problem?"], ["Speaking of racism, If we do something which is the right thing, are we considered racist too ? A few time I experience people called racist for wanting to do the right thing as racism is kinda subjective too. Not to say the driver here is not racist.\nFor example (I don't mean to generalize certain race, just example where doing the right thing can be viewed as 'racism' by certain people):\nI want only poor bumis to be helped, rich bumi should not get any help anymore and all the resources should be focused to help poor bumi -- I am called a racist for some reason even I didn't say the resources go and help non-bumi.\nThere is a time where my department is like 90% from a single race, I approve new people to department based on a standard test. Some people are uncomfortable with my department being majority a single race and asked me to \"lower\" acceptance score to increase the diversity of my department -- Somehow I am the racist one. Dude, my department already at full capacity and hiring people who didn't fit the skill needed will doom my department.\nThe most frustrating incident where I am called racist by BOTH side during one time I need to handle a promotional material for my club.\nI have a BM version of our Christmas promotion, It's just something like \"Selamat Hari Krismas, semoga kamu begembira dengan promosi kami\". Some people complain that I am not sensitive and racist , aske me to not use BM because it might make the event seems to be Islamic event and might confuse people. (Since when BM = Islam) ?\nThen I just do the materials in English, Tamil, and Chinse. THE SAME PEOPLE say I am racist again for not having BM, saying I see BM not important and thus not using it. I reply when I use BM you all said I am racist, I no use BM you all said I am racist again, what dafak you want me to do ? They keep quiet and left the club, I'm done lmao.", "The only comment I feel worth replying because I can feel your frustration as a marketer - tired of the vile shit from the others from both sides of the coin.\nJust a thought: don't you think maybe they were just setting you up for failure, maybe they wanted you out anyway? You know la, office politics.\nMy question is, did you check first if BM is required? I understand sometimes you need BM in everything although I think the current climate might make BM for Christmas a contentious issue. You could maybe table your opinion first and see what they decide before execution? I'm not sure what industry you're in but I'd fuck it all and just do English alone. My excuse is if cannot read English then you're probably not the target audience."], ["You are unlucky to have met the typical racist Chinese. Apologies on their behalf, mate.\nThose are the type of people who look down on other races just because they were born Chinese. It is like auto pandai, kaya compared to other races; other races are beneath them.\nWhen you try to fight back, they will play victim.\nUnfortunately, most of these racists are those in the B40, M40 categories. Ironic, isn\u2019t it?"], ["I mean, the part about puasa month being the best month to go out without large crowds or traffic is true \ud83d\ude02", "I actually felt the same, this one point is just a matter of fact. It's the same as saying CNY/Raya is the best time to be in Klang Valley, no large crowd.", "it appears to be an insult to OP.", "I mean, that line, if standalone, is just an observation. I've sat with Malay grab drivers 'jam teruk sebab CNY'. Just an obsevation. But the whole conversation with OP is pretty racist.", "im going to cameron during puasa then. lel"], ["A lot of Chinese people are just as racist. Difference is just that they're not backed by the government so they had to do it in a more clandestine manner", "The fact that indians would prefer to be friends with malays more (even with all the insitutionalized racism) over the \"not racist people\" , tells you all you need to know about how racists these people are.\nMalays are racists to other races because of power. Give them that and they'd shut up.\nThese \"not racist people\" are racists purely because they hate you\nMalays say shit like \"they want to steal our country\" or \"kafir cabar islam\"\nThey say shit like \"backwards 10anak pedos\" or \"apunene will kidnap you\"", "Exactly. Everyone should really learn mandarin and Hokkien and go to Penang for a weekend to listen in on what they say behind your back when they assume you don't understand. They're just unnecessarily mean and vicious even if they don't know you from Adam. Just walk around queensbay mall, get into a lift, or browse some mid tier shops (~300-400 dollar shoes/clothes).", "Can confirm. As an Indian, bumi laws and institutional racism aside, I\u2019ve never experienced personal racism from Malays.\nThe Chinese have treated me like rubbish my entire like (I went to SJKC). You cannot imagine the nasty things they say behind your back when they think you don\u2019t understand their language.", "GG if you're one of the dark ones it's either \"Kuli\" (more to central Malaysia) or apunene all the way.\nLittle shits of all ages thank you for your service by scaring them to submission (if you don't eat/finish homework/behave yourself apuneneh catch you)\nInb4 anyone says it's a global Chinese thing, it's not - have worked in china n the people are really nice. Some villagers may stare, take pictures and kids touch you and stuff cuz they haven't seen non-Hans in real life - it's the same effect when orientals go to India/pakistan in the deep rural areas or even places like old Delhi.\nThat said, there is still racism from pedalaman, kampung types if you're in SRK by your classmates (bile nk masuk isle, sembah patung masuk neraka, kling balik India) but you don't get random unprovoked statements like this uncle.", "I was called uncle ta pien (correct my spelling please) by one of my wife\u2019s friends kids. I know what that means, (wife is Chinese) and the fact that I\u2019m brown skinned triggered the kid to say that, only goes to show what their parents teach them regarding people of colour.\nTo be a bit petty, their dads are more tanned than I am. In the words of the great Michael Jordan, fuck them kids.", "Anecdotal evidence at its finest... lol \"personal racism\"", "are you trying to invalidate other's personal experience?", "I've been mocked by Malay as Cina Babi + threatened for another 513, yet you dont see me crying about Malay being taliban/terrorist, while this fella think all Chinese are racist in order to justify his own racism. Lol yeah anecdotal evidence at it's finest", "yet you dont see me crying about Malay\nbut less intelligent\nthe only normal Indonesians are probably the ethnic Chinese(Tionghoa), Balinese Hindus and Christian", "fanfanye back at it again lmao", "Imagine there is some form of racism backed by the government /s"], ["Malaysian Chinese are some of the most racist folks I have come across, with the Penang variety especially toxic.", "Penang kias are the worst. They really believe in their own hype."], ["Poor guy probably doesn't have any Malay friends.", "By whose fault if not his own. A grown man can think.", "Probably got rejected by a gyatt Malay awek"], ["The amount of excuses people make here for being racist just because he is Chinese, this sub is just full of hypocrite Chinese racists", "I grew up online (Gen Z) as a Malay and I've always been vocal IRL and online about abolishing bumi rights, affirmative actions, and fighting against racism etc.\nBut now that we have Ktads from LYN pouring in and other average Malaysians trolling this sub I realized that it's just an issue not worth caring about because I see how they are. I've been attacked many times simply because of my username. Abu Nawas is not even my name, he was a philosopher.\nBe pro-equality, still have Chinese people being racist at you.\nBe pro-bumi, same shit.\nWhy bother?\nEDIT: I talk about online experiences because it's something we all can relate to but I myself have also experienced a lot of real-life racism from Chinese people.", "Unfortunately it will take some time for newer generations to change the status quo. I feel sad for my racist friends and family. The bumi policy isn\u2019t helping assimilation at all, and PAS/DAP politicians also keep making the racial divide even larger to serve their own interests. Reading the comments in this sub has brought to light the true situation on the ground now about racism in Malaysia, it doesn\u2019t seem like we are truly that united, everything just on the surface for show only. We actually have a lot of work to do.", "Just try and say Pas/dap are two sides of the same coin and watch yourself being downvoted by the ultra red beans", "agree lah. I used to preach about abolishing bumi rights and shit but I realize whats the point anymore? will abolishing bumi rights make all malaysian learn malay? Will ablolishing bumi rights make cultural assimilation a thing?\njust like you said why bother anymore.", "pls la. special bumi rights should be abolished because it helps the malays - yeah that's right, how's that for an out of the box take.\ndon't do it because you want to do virtue signalling", "Again, as I said, I don't bother about bumi rights anymore. I never benefitted from it anyway. People crack it up to be something bigger, while in reality, it's not life-changing.", "They don\u2019t need to be abolished or bulldozed. They just need to be quietly died down.", "Chinese are not just racist in Malaysia, unfortunately.", "They even have a lot of in-fighting. North vs. South. Taiwan vs. Mainland. Diasporas vs. Mainlanders. Etc.", "Yeah they also have Sunni vs Shia, Indonesia vs Malaysia", "If you're trying to bait me, I am a Malay who's not a Muslim and I am part-Indonesian.\nIn my opinion, most people are awful regardless of creed.", "Well at least have some nuance then instead of generalising that Chinese as a people have a lot of infighting \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f you want unity? Don\u2019t la throw fire on hate \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\nBtw bro, how are you a non muslim Malay in Malaysia? I\u2019m curious, did you go through official channels or just senyap senyap don\u2019t practice? Any backlash? I asking coz my friend married into muslim", "What does unity look like? The USSR? Pol Pot's regime? Marxism? It doesn't exist and it never will. Me making a comment about Chinese in-fighting doesn't mean that I don't think the same about Africans or Arabs or even Europeans.\nI am non-Muslim because I decided to be non-Muslim. Who cares what my documents say? If I leave Malaysia, it will stop being relevant anyway.\nYes there is backlash, by baboons who never think for themselves.", "Unity looks like Sabah", "You mean poverty.", "Bro just said Kota Kinabalu = poverty \ud83d\udc80", "So is this generalisation? How all muslim are terrorist sounds to you?", "hilarious", "They will track you down and behead you, watch out. Sleep in fear tonight.", "oh no ahhhhh takut", "Now that's an actually racist take lmao. What race does not have racists? Just discuss the issue la, racism = wrong, no matter the context or race. Why gotta spew ur closeted racism here? Gtfo you're as much of a problem as the driver if you're a racist"], ["As a chinese I feel uncomfortable and cringed by reading the dialogues from him ._. Unfortunately after years of modern education we still have those kinds of people here, being racist towards other ethnicity in the roots of their minds. Hopefully you won't encounter this kind of person in the future.", "Thank you for your understanding. I lived in Austria for 13 years, I have never experienced racism. Until few days ago, in my own country. I also hope that I don\u2019t have to encounter this again. Thank you!", "Hi, if you don't mind what kind of job did you do while in Austria? I am interested in emigrating to europe\nBut I am just a fresh grad tho"], ["Nothing uncommon. Those racist people whether its Chinese, Malay or any other races are the reason why national unity are as bad as now.\nBetter let them be. Because these kind of people are living under a rock. Living in different world"], ["Unfortunately, racism still happened in Malaysia and it's not only by specific races."], ["Should leave a comment or review on his fb account."], ["This is probably where the sentence \"kamu balik china lah\" would be justified cuz since he hate malays so much and thinks all chinese are oh so good then pindah to china lor\nIm saying this as a chinese ok,we all are born here so the most basic mindset is to just idk not hate each other because of race ok? :26558::26558:"], ["Racism in Malaysia has always been rampant. Before it was mostly locals on foreigners; now finally it\u2019s becoming prevalent among the locals themselves.\nBack in 2011, I was literally told by an aged Chinese man \u201cI don\u2019t talk to your kind, get lost\u201dwhen me and my friend simply asked for directions to Pavilion in KL. One of the many examples. Outright racism that I have faced in Malaysia in my first 3 months, I haven\u2019t faced that in 3 years in Australia (a supposedly racist nation)\nA slippery slope, my friends."], ["Haih. I've been around long enough to see this sort of racism from all races.\nThe only difference is how openly racist he is to you in front of your face. Usually talk bad behind, this one talk bad in front asking for a bad review."], ["When we were looking for a parking lot, one Malay couple was about to leave. I said \u201cthank god to this Malay we got a parking spot in front of the plantation\u201d. Not sure he heard me or not.\nLmao this is a good comeback (imo)\nAnyways, OP, I really hope you reported this guy and also criticize him kaw kaw in your review.", "One of my friend said good I said that \ud83d\ude02\nYes I will some time write a review on his Facebook page"], ["I had this Indian lady who mistakenly thought my worker had given her the wrong change. It was the correct one.\nBut the interaction is somewhere along \u201cInilah orang Islam\u2026\u201d right to her face."], ["We\u2019re Malaysians. We\u2019re racist to each other.", "Sadly.."], ["TIL there are racist people in Malaysia /s"], ["In this community only Malay racist other race no racist /s", "Versa to you bolehlanders , privileged and government backed majority vs suppressed discrimination minorities was being asked to give up more rights", "The only people that actually benefit from the bumi right is the people on top of the hierarchy pyramid. Ie elites.", "but you posted on bolehland. Are you not one of them too?", "Shhh ,hydra dominatus."], ["Tipu ni cina mana ada racist. Melayu je yang racist"], ["Somwthing off topic, if you are to post this in bolehland, i wonder what will be the replies like.", "The exact same replies as the comments in this post i would bet, just with different race."], ["This is what happens when you live in your own bubble and not befriending people from other backgrounds. Ignorance breeds hate.\nMost Malaysian aspire the same. To have an honest living and practice our own things.", "Did you not read that OP has\u2026foreign friends and local non-malay friends?", "I am referring to the racist uncle, iant it obvious?", "Nope, not to me. Using the word \u201cyou\u201d breeds my assumption that you are referring to OP as obviously you don\u2019t have direct contact with the driver, unless he is your dad or something.\nAnd the uncle is a driver by trade. We can assume he met people from different backgrounds so excuse my misunderstanding", "Exactly. Don't use the word \"you\" unless the person is being addressed directly. Use third person pronouns instead."], ["Sounds like the average /r/Malaysia redditor OP."], ["I\u2019m a Singaporean Muslim (non Malay). I feel like Malaysian Chinese who don\u2019t \u2019make it\u2019 in life have a chip on their shoulder against Malays and Muslim in Malaysia. I was in Penang (not going back, too boring) and the Chinese drivers can\u2019t seem to wait to let you know how they feel about Malays in their country."], ["All this Malays lah that go out, we Chinese don\u2019t go out cos we don\u2019t like jam\nnah bro, this one isn't true. As a Chinese, I can confirm most chinese also like to stuck in traffic jam esp. during holiday. Chinese are the most kiasu one. Everyone goes outing during holiday, chinese x boleh tahan also want to go out.", "I also disagree with his opinion. I was like \u201cbanyak je chinese. Even Indians\u201d. It was during school break after Xmas. Of course there\u2019s huge traffic from all kinds of races. Even from Singapore."], ["I just hope this story didn\u2019t get into FB & Twitter. I\u2019m tired reading racist posts here and there all the time."], ["CASE-1:I booked grab and I was waiting for 15min approx, then a Chinese lady driver came , as soon as she noticed I'm a foreigner she ran away with her car \ud83d\ude02, that time me and my friend laughed so hard.\nCASE-2: I share my apartment with a local Chinese gentleman aged nearly 40-45. in this apartment the rule is that everyone should keep the common area silent after 10 at night. so me and my friend take our dinner at 9-10 usually. but this china guy sometimes got mad, shout, throws tables Infront of us and says that why we eat at 9, we should take our meal at 7\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02. also he implies rules that we even cannot do an egg fry after 7 at night. already informed the management team but that didn't work unfortunately, after contact maybe I can change my apartment.", "Bruhhh\u2026 that grab situation happened to me last week in Penang. He was Chinese uncle. Waited almost 10 mins and he was secs away to fetch me and two foreign friends, he cancelled\u2026 drove passed us too \ud83d\udc80"], ["Now i know how that one guy from America said malay ppl kil Christians and destroy churches came from \ud83d\ude02 must be from his visit to Malaysia when hearing things from this kind of unker"], ["Bruh... that's just fucked up. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I seriously, honestly wish I was in that car with you so I could just lay it back on the dude. Nobody should be allowed to be that rude and racist and be allowed to walk away unscathed.", "Thanks bruh.\nFurthermore, we told to him cut the trip short cos we were tired but mocking us \u201cyou young people why tired. Look at those backpackers carrying huge bags not tired\u201d. Side note: we are half the age of the backpackers. He should be happy to cut the trip short and still we pay full price. My foreign friend said it\u2019s exhausting to discuss something with him.", "Is he a Chinese uncle?", "He is indeed a Chinese uncle.. I had Chinese uncles as my grab drivers in Penang. Some of them, we had a really good conversation."], ["Give him negative 5 stars if you could. Elaborate the situation briefly in the reviews. Fuck racism."], ["He is a redditor."], ["Report that guy, just a shameful act of racism. On Chinese social media and press, Malay on Chinese is so frequently reported and the comments are like \"oh we are bullied for being a unique small minority\",but I actually also felt that Chinese on Malay is also frequent in the form of stereotypes, just that Chinese people is known to keep their feelings to themselves and being clever about it. Seriously, if we were to achieve actual unity, this has to change."], ["Hey OP, wait until you learned how badly racist some Chinese are against Indian people."], ["Man this guy was disturbingly comfortable with his racism.... Makes me wonder how much worse he is behind closed doors.\nFwiw, OP, this is an unfortunate reality for a lot of people where some assholes are just very comfortable with being a racist piece of shit to your face. But from experience, they very quickly back down or shut their mouths the minute you call them out on it. Most of us are just too polite in these situations, so its likely they haven't experienced anyone actually telling them off for their racist behaviour."], ["come to penang lah, they even call you huana (barbaric people) in normal daily conversation and nothing racist about that to them.", "Huana literally means malay people", "Huana just means Malay", "I grew up in Ipoh and they called white people \"gwai lou\". It's devil or something.", "That's Cantonese. Chinese people in Ipoh are mostly Cantonese and Hakkas. Gwei Lou is transliterated as \"ghost fella\" because they are white as ghosts. I'd imagine some white guy in the past exaggerated the explanation to his fellow white people by using \"devil\" to sound more sensational (and maybe cool) and it caught on.\nFun fact for you, the uncommon opposite version which non-Chinese probably don't know is \"hak gwai\" which literally means \"black ghost\", used to describe Africans. It technically does not apply to Indians, if you hear someone say that then they're not just racist but categorically stupid in his attempt at racism.", "I see. Thanks for explaining!", "I hear hak gwai and hak chai used against Indians all the time. It\u2019s not uncommon.", "if you hear someone say that then they're not just racist but categorically stupid in his attempt at racism\nThe original meaning was meant for Africans. As I said, racist just gonna be racist.", "Huana is literally how hokkien people call malay and there is no degratory in it.", "Teochew people also, afaik there's no alternative word because that's the only word my grandma was taught growing up.", "'then the K word is how melakans call indians , theres no degratory meaning in it '\nSee how that sounds ? Huana is still an ethnic slur with deeper meaning in other places such as the philipines or taiwan", "Yeah but we are not taiwan or philipines , the other is not goverment backed , we don't purposely say it to degrate people , simply because there is no other word in hokkien to call malay people or widely know yet , you can launch a cancel culture on them , but cancelling is a west liberal thing you might want to avoid it", "What about calling them Malay or Melayu instead though?\nI'll be like me calling my dad Keling because I grew up with the word and for some insane reason, never hearing the word Tamil in my life.", "There no such word exist in hokkien yet , and educating language outside of main mandarin dialect in sjkc is illegal the teacher will cane you for even speaking one hokkien word , hokkien education is non existence how do you expect people to change, launch a cancel culture then , but then there will be people purposely use it for degratory because yall just put a degratory meaning in it by trying to cancel it.", "So you want to invent a new word? Good luck with that.", "That\u2019s literally how language evolve. You think we\u2019ve always had the word \u201cbasikal\u201d ??", "I live in Penang (till mid Jan 2024 before going back to Austria). And I have many Chinese grab drivers. Never a problem. I remember I had a really good conversations with some of the Chinese drivers."], ["ni mesti jenis suka hon x penyabar"], ["Hey, maybe you'd meet the uncle again during the next r/Malaysia meet up session. Now got common topic."], ["Now you meet one, as an ethnicity cina guy, next time you heard some racist remarks from them, just talk in Mandarin or Hokien or Cantonese i understand Chinese, you will be surprised by their face changes XP"], ["What country do you think you're in? Communities actively generalise each other or get opinions on each other through Tik Tok / political parties"], ["My last Grab ride back from the airport was in a Malay fella's car \u2014 had a good chat about stuff that the whole 45 minutes felt like 15 minutes.\nIf anything my long term (10+ years) hired car guy is a Malay fella as well we get quite candid about such conversations as well, dude had done nothing but be on time and a good conversationalist. We spoke relatively 'controversial' subjects because we were both each other's soundboard on things like this.\nAs some has mentioned here you got unlucky."], ["Sounds like your typical racist Chinese unkerr"], ["REVEAL THE NAME", "And you will just believe this post by an anonymous poster? Without any evidence of such incident?", "Pls reread what I type because I want proof and not another rage bait post.", "Sry replied to the wrong comment", "Apology accepted", "Yup, need some proof. If not it\u2019s just flaming and look at the commenters going wild.", "Yupe and people are typing alot of colourful comments when there's no proof from op side."], ["Racism is everywhere if you see it.\nIt\u2019s a pity that he chose to live his life around it.\nI can\u2019t blame him and I won\u2019t condone this kind of behaviour, we live in a country that has institutions and open racism to the non and what you experienced is daily life of the non more or less.\nI hope we can one day break from this vicious cycle of hatred."], ["You should have asked him to stop or call him out when he says anything racist. Usually people who are racist out in the open have either a lack of shame or they are really lowly educated."], ["just drive motor lah kalau tak nak jam only OL je i see naik moto senang"], ["He could be the next makcik kemboja, if only you record then let the authorities handle him."], ["wtf\nthose r rookie number,tell unker he got to pump more\nu sure he blue ic msian"], ["Smlj joke he does. Don't bother about an idiot like him. Educate him like a little kid next time if you have d chance. What an ass"], ["I\u2019m a foreigner and live with Chinese family. Sadly racism is a thing towards Malay\u2026"], ["Thx to our great government that been playing racism cards n promote \"bumi rights\" which rose unfairness n equally questions in the sunlights.\nPlus they purposely brainwashing people to be racism , so we keep fighting between ourselves while the politicians sitting on top enjoying our ripped off taxes money n corruption.\nBe awake people, be clarity of mind, knowing what causes all these n walk yourself away from this.\nEdit: typo correction"], ["Racism is not unique to any race. It is more prevalent among the uneducated. So a boomer driver? Not surprised.", "Even among the educated ones. Seen plenty of them here in Reddit."], ["It's unfortunate you end up with this moron. Even the worst racist I know is professional if he was paid for a service."], ["The worse part is they called it \"free speech\". Racism in Reddit is also getting bad by the day."], ["your mistake was you did not shut him down when he first started talking shit. you should have told him that you are not paying him to talk, but drive. you allowed him to continue and he took that as you agreeing with what he said and so he pushed his limits and went on further. as the employer, you should have done that. you are accountable for the experience that your foreign friends are having."], ["Welcome to the experience of every other non Malay in Malaysia."], ["The irony being a post about a racist Chinese driver while the comments are being racist against Chinese in particular.\nLet's just make this clear as day, the driver is racist, period. more than likely uncle type who don't know when to keep their mouth shut. Met a few of them but they mostly talks about business even though I have no interest\nHowever whether a person is racist or not does not depend on race, is the individual, if you disagree then you are a racist. Chinese, Indians, Malays and every single race all have their bad apples and just leave it at that."], ["Funny how Malay keep saying don\u2019t paint them with one brush then proceed to paint all Chinese with one brush lol", "they literally said that this Grab driver was the first time they had experienced such racism, and that they had lots of Chinese and Indian friends who were perfectly alright\nIronically you're the one saying \"Malays keep saying\" as if they're all one monolithic group", "Actually there are a lot of Chinese who are racist and I say that as a Chinese person myself. The in-your-face racists like that driver are rare though.", "Now put a mirror on your comment. Replace race \"x\" and put race \"y\" in the same spot. Doesn't make sense right? Because it's still same thing."], ["finally understand how minority feel in this country?", "yala cina cannot be rasis only malay only", "More like privileged goverment backed majority prohibited a supressed discriminated minorities to talk back while they can freely do so without consequences", "prohibited a supressed discriminated minorities to talk back? what minorities cannot talk balk ke? tak paham le", "Blh , tapi masuk lokap", "Calling minority balik tongsan and K word no issue. The cambodian merchant saying M word (lazy) police involved KEK.", "Ask minorities like indians who are more racist to them, the \u201cgovernment backed majority\u201d malays or the fella minorities chinese\nSee what you come up with for the results and lets us know", "Nobody going to jail by saying indian malas ,your pmx even got himself a k-word pass , privileged ones.", "Why MY pmx? Youre not gonna claim youre malaysian now? Why bother posting on this subreddit if you cant even pretend youre a malaysian?", "Well i didn't vote for him plus given your comment i bet you're one of those call us pendatang anyway, does it matter?", "Did i ever even imply that? Lmfao. Is it just like your lifestyle to feel victimised in any sort of discussion because you cant handle that you are wrong?\nJust because you didnt vote for PMx doesnt mean that he\u2019s not your prime minister. Every Malaysians had to go through 50+ years of BN, are you going to say that all the previous PMs werent your prime minister too? Do you really think people were proud to call the BN PMs their PM even with all the corruption back then? Or are you really happy calling Najib your PM but not PMX lol?\nLoser malaysian mentality thinking, only wants to claim to care about Malaysia but never wants to admit anything that is part of Malaysia and then complain when nothing changes", "Perhaps you should to get your brethen to admit cina are malaysian first", "Why my brethen? How come you dont wanna claim those people to be a part of your brethen too? Somehow youre making it like i\u2019m the one who has the division mindset when youre the one who cant stop thinking that me and you arent from the sane group lol\nYour internalised us vs them is so chronic man start having friends irl"], ["Been subject to racism from a very young age so nothing new here (you are fortunate to be so shielded). Cina babi, balik Cina and even school teacher saying \u2018mata sudah sepit lagi mahu mengantuk\u2019 - accepted this since very young and already numb to it."], ["ill say ,just go back to main land", "Don't fight racism with more racism", "Nah, they need a taste of their own medicine - they know what they're doing is wrong, and if they didn't, now they'll know how it feels\nPrimitive idiots need primitive lessons. Start at the bottom of the pyramid then work yourself up", "Who are these 'they'? You are speaking of? OP posted 1 racist guy who happens to be Chinese. You are going to blame the whole race because of 1 person?\nYour moral high ground 'so high'", "\"They\" refers to the individual racists. If someone pokes your eye they should be ok with their eyes being poked out", "Luckily, for the rest of us, we have the justice system. You go ahead and poke people's eyes then, will read about you in the headlines", "Well, maybe u should go back to Indonesia?", "What is this logic? Not ALL Malays are from Indonesia.\n???"], ["Blame it on the individual, his up bringing has led him to this path as fate we would have called it. Just let it be. Racism a worldwide problem, since the dawn of men."], ["Op, there are many ppl like this who are tin kosong. This is oral diarrhoea from orang tak educated. They open their mouth and talk shit cause they are looking for conflict. I can gurantee this type of bodoh are the ones that go home to the wife and kids and talk shit in the family too. Believe me, I\u2019m sure his children don\u2019t see this man as father of the year, unless his kids are also bengap like him. He was really overstepping talking to you and your foreign friends like this- not professional at all. You need to proactive next time. When you paid for a service and things are making you feel uncomfortable- you need to speak up. This man so anti Malay this and that- he still take the Malay money right? So he can stfu. When ppl go off topic, \u2018hello sir, please end this type of conversation, I don\u2019t pay for this political talk\u2019. Be firm, but polite. If more ppl can speak up against idiots talking shit in the streets- this world would be a better place."], ["We the government, teachers and parents should educate the school students about race equality and racism."], ["He's an idiot, and obsessed with Malays.\n\"thank god to this Malay we got a parking spot in front of the plantation\u201d isn't racist, but why even need to mention the race unless he's obsessed with them?\\\nThere was a bunch of racist things tho"], ["Alhamdulillah, I saw the comments here and I will keep them in mind the next time I vote.", "Vote based on proposed policies not some salty comments on a reddit thread lol", "Thats not gonna be good for ph with all those new tax coming in and impending subsidy cut.", "New luxury tax and targeted subsidy if I'm not mistaken, bad for rich tycoons but good for common folks no?", "All kena, rich t20 luxury tax, increased income tax,\nm40 below rm500 online purchasing tax, increased electricity tariff, no fuel subsidy\nB40=Win with increased br1m, fuel subsidy.\n2024 gonna be a smashing year.. no wonder Chinese says 4 is suwey.", "b40 definitely kena also.. business owned by M40 and T20.. if these people are hit, the goods that B40 buy is gonna get hit too.", "You got me at the last part \ud83d\ude02 take my upvote", "So you just gonna believe some random reddit post.", "Who cares who you vote, go ahead hahahahahahah"], ["Looks like you\u2019ve just found CCP supporter."], ["this uncle is probably those shit stain ccp supporters who call china their mother country too."], ["Sorry u have to go through that, us Chinese don't claim him", "Thank you bro \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd"], ["Race baiting this sub is hilariously easy.\nWho cares what some random cab driver thinks? Leave a review and move on. Also, you're a paying customer, tell the dude to stfu and put on some T.Swift.", "The whole journey OP couldn't say a word, but can come to reddit and say a lot lol. How about grow a pair and tell the taxi driver to shut it as a paying customer, berani kat leddit aje.", "said by the person who has been very vocal talking shit about B40s for the past few years\nWhy only berani on reddit"], ["wow...not even election season and still got race-baiting propaganda....what's going on?"], ["Try to put yourself in his shoes on why he came to such politically incorrect behavior.\nLet's put it this way, the minorities also experiencing daily institutionalized racism that the majority thinks is fully justified. I personally experienced that a Nasi Lemak stall owner refused/or gave priority to her own kind while everyone is on the queue to place order, it was obvious that when it finally reach my turn she instead serving the next person in-line, I walked away, I don't know if it will be safe to eat.\nThat's how your elected Government wants it.\nEdit: I love my Malay and Indian friends, but that's how the institutionalized racism runs things here. Also, your skin complexion will determine who you are and your voting option, PAS, Bersatu, UMNO, MIC, MCA, Pejuang all require a specific type of skin color, there are a few others options, but for another topic."], ["feels great on the receiving end huh? I'm sorry that you had to experience racism, the driver's behavior is inexcusable, but not out of the ordinary as a Malaysian, so... shake it off, I guess? like so many nons and minorities in the country", "Thanks, OP feels better now. /s"], ["We found the private driver y'all!", "Hello, this comment was removed due to being in breach of Rule 1: Bigotry and hate speech.\nThis is an official warning to stop fanning racial flames on this thread, or a ban will be imposed.", "People like you hurt non-racist Malays. Wow.", "So u just paint everyone with one brush ? In your mind all malays are racist hence all Malay deserves to be treated that way ?"], ["You ain't a racist if you are Chinese.\nEdit: calm down guys not all Chinese ok. Only some."], ["Hohoho don\u2019t worry. Institutionalised racism still in place. Ketuanan still rules.", "It\u2019s so funny that the word ketuanan has been mentioned by no one in daily conversations. Not even the Malays themselves.\nMeanwhile Cina ledditors lol.", "Just because you didn\u2019t hear it mentioned doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t exist.", "It does exist. I was merely pointing out where or by whom the word was most used."], ["Here we go again. Another race bait post. \ud83d\ude44"], ["Racism is institutionalised, what can you do? Article 153 already proves inequality between people being okay in this country.\nYou lot like to remind us we are pendatangs and we need to go back where we come from, you leech from our hardwork, you don't appreciate us, and you slowly encroach and erode our rights slowly. You want us to not be racist?\nI feel bad for you but I don't feel surprised tbh, I can also name situations where I get abused too. But I don't make a big post here whining about something we see every 5 years.\nIn conclusion, you can't change something that's already acceptable here.", "Fucking based perspective but it's also regarded AF. By this reasoning we shouldn't try to progress but just lie down and accept it because it's here to stay? I see you have the courage to make a based take but no balls nor willingness to fight for change. Woe is us apparently.", "I see you have the courage to make a based take but no balls nor willingness to fight for change.\nLol I was one of those who marched on the streets and joined rallies for Bersih, I have friends who marched to the polling centres to become barricades to prevent them from tampering the ballots. I've argued with people and even my own family members, convincing them changw is required, I've done my part since long ago. So you don't get to tell me about fighting for change.", "Okay so then you make no sense with your statement. You went to the rallies and fought on the streets and here you are telling people essentially it is what it is? Are you just making based statements without thinking?", "here you are telling people essentially it is what it is?\nWell I'm telling you after fighting for change during my younger days, nothing has changed. Same shit, different packaging.\nIf we are sincere in eradication of social issues, it takes time and institutional enforcement with willpower to change things. And I can tell you as long as we have the same bunch of ppl ruling and wanting to maintain the status quo, it will never change.\nSo yeah, I think I wasted time doing what I did. Been there done that. I wished I got myself rich and left the country.", "Ah okay so because your experience has changed you have devalued your so called \"effort\", and what you did in the past is meaningless as you have changed your perspective to \"it will never change\". So there's no point in telling me I can't judge your balls, because you've already lost them in your journey to writing this back and forth. Either way it's a base statement but regarded reasoning. I see why you think the country won't change. Have a good day.", "Ah okay so because your experience has changed you have devalued your so called \"effort\", and what you did in the past is meaningless as you have changed your perspective to \"it will never change\".\nThings won't change because it takes more than just changing politicians and parties to fix the problem. We've changed several governments since 2018, tell me what had truly changed apart from pushing people further to the extremes of the political spectrum? Are we much closer to a better country now than before? No we aren't. The fact that there's still idiots trying to make moves to wrest back power is proof that it doesn't matter how people vote, they don't fucking respect your vote. All they care about is lining their pockets with money.\nSo there's no point in telling me I can't judge your balls, because you've already lost them in your journey to writing this back and forth.\nYou don't get to judge me because you're don't know me, heck I'm pretty sure I've done far more than you for the country than you ever did. Who do you think you are? You're a nobody, just a pathetic little prat who thinks he's someone who can make a splash lol. You'll realise it soon enough and I'm just going to say:\nI told you so."], ["man you know, you sound like a well to do guy, and im not defending him but this fella is a driver helpless has to work his ass off to survive watching prices go up and up and up all the time while making basically less and less because of price gouging and rideshare apps\nmalaysia is full of racism, all against all, if you wanna single this chinese out for hating malays i also think you're being a bit naive or over indignant, basically people are dissatisfied with the government and taking it out on each other\nbe a bigger person and think compassionately instead of showing how disillusioned this guy is to the entire reddit"], ["You seriously comparing how black Americans being treated in the US to how non bumi being treated in malaysia ?\nWhat ?!!! How ?!!!!\nAs per you mention, Chinese owned business is the core of Malaysian economy. How can a group of people that have these kind of success still thinks that thy are being treated worst that blacks American in America where they have been systematically put in poverty and at one point slaves by the American whites ?\nThis is why I hate people like you ! Yes here there\u2019s racism in Malaysia. no one can deny it but for you to belittle the hardship of black Americans it\u2019s craaazyyyy to me !!! Nuts !", "Yes, non bumis are openly discriminated in Malaysia and that is an ugly fact. From Education to Businessses. It's not a country based on meritocracy. Listen, I know of non bumis with Straight As and denied entries to do medicine in local Unis but for Bumis, they could get in with lesser grades. Government scholarships given to Bumis with lesser grades than Non Bumis ( straight As) despite the non bumis parents being hawkers... wtf.\nI dont think I said anything to belittle the hardship of black Americans. Black Americans do have a louder voice in the US than the Chinese in Malaysia. Blacks face hardships due to their own work and home culture and attitudes. So u r jumping to wrong conclusions.\nI don't have data to prove that Chinese owned companies are the core of the Malaysian economy today considering many Bumi enterprises are also very large but the Chinese entrepreneurs in 70s to 90s did help build the economy. Unfortunately the Malaysian Govt does not want to give credit to them.they are constantly told to thank the Malays?? Pfft...for what? Only in Malaysia do u have Malay dominated politicians openly threatening another race. Do u think the white Americans can say \"black ppl, don't test our patience with u??\" . Even South Africa does not behave like Malaysia..pls go get ur facts right.\nMalaysia is a sad state with a divisive Govt for the past 30 yrs. A truly none progressive mindset, esp the politics and Govt.\nMalaysia would be a far more progressive country if the government stopped it's racial politics. A country so rich in natural resources but poorly developed local talent due to racial politics and discrimination is the cause of Malaysia's poor economy and quality of life. The problem is u have this small elite group of Malays who wants control of the Malays to win elections. I don't have the data but only a small elite group of Malays are reaping the rewards but more than 60pct of them are struggling financially. This is just general observation.\nIt will take generations to reverse this sick racism in Malaysia.", "As a Malay who is pro abolishing bumi rights, I don\u2019t feel welcome in this fight for equality in malaysia if on the other side are people like you who painted every Malays with the same brush.\nThe simple fact is, you need Malays on your team to win the equality fight in malaysia . This will never happen when we see what kind of sick opinion the people that want to fight for \u201cequality\u201d have on malays in general.\nTepuk dada, Tanya selera.. you wanna fight against racism, then don\u2019t be racist first \u2026\nAnd for your simpleton mind let me tell you this, Black Americans may have a louder voice now, but most of them are still in poverty. Look at facts, get off the internet. Compare the household income of Chinese Malaysian and black Americans in the context of each country\u2019s demographic la.", "I agree with u. All races should work together and push the entire nation forward. It's frustrating for non bumis to be constantly told they don't belong to Malaysia when all they know is about Malaysia. Racism is toxic and will never go away but the government should not openly use it as a tool to win votes and constantly poison the minds of Bumis that Chinese are a threat to the Bumis existence. The Chinese are not interested in taking any privileges from the Malays. They just want to earn a decent living for their families. The Govt should stop sowing hate into the minds of Malays that Chinese are a threat..it just builds this distrust amongst races. I agree that not all Malays are racist but many view non bumis as trying to take things away from them.\nIt's just disheartening to see a country with so much resources and talent to be in this state.", "If I'm malay why would I ever want it to change. I'm a privalaged race. My local politicians and religious leaders remind me everyday that I'm the superior race and everyone else is beneath me. I get free handouts in terms of welfare and bumi discounts. If I get an income of only 3k rm I am very contented. I daily look at religious and propaganda tiktok and FB telling me all the bad things other races are trying to sabotage us and they will be our downfall. While at the same time coming into major liberal cities looking for work under Chinese bosses and do gigs treating it as a full time job. Also under the management of other races. Then have to also rent from nons as well but quietly curse them inside of being a non halal abode.\nI do not ever see this nation progressing ever in the next coming century even. We are only a step or crisis away from regressing into a total taliban like Islamic state. Don't have to look far. ACEH is a good example. If tht ever comes to happen. Malaysia is gone. Malay conservatives won. All nons would desert Malaysia in droves and any hope of Malaysia ever developing into a 1st world state is gone while other aswan countries overtake us and our main import then will be security guards and maids.", "Haha this guy is the supreme ultra malay tuan tanah, no use arguing with him", "The Chinese are treated far worse than the blacks in the US\nExcuse you? Call us woke for knowing of their slavery and in 2023, blacks still get SHOT, LYNCHED for existing. It feels good to be in control by putting another race down, doesn't it? We're not the ones being randomly stopped by the street for 'spot checks' or followed around in stores as if we're stealing.\nNo one is ignoring your first paragraph, but you really sound like an All Lives Matter apologist. \"I hate everyone equally!\"", "That's coz blacks have a higher risk of killing others due to their historical crime track record..it's unfortunate but black youths have given themselves that reputation. The police see them as high risk so they get shot. I disagree with the way the police behave but the US is actually a pretty messed up ctry now. That is the sad fact. A bunch of hypocrites and corrupted Democrats and Reps. China will overtake the US.", "Bruh this man is purely a racist fella why is he not banned here, mods need to put a warning on his username tbh idk if he\u2019s super racist or super dumb", "\"The Chinese are treated far worse than the blacks in the US\"\n\"As a Malay, most will feel supreme over other races..\"\nI know you are racist, but perhaps try to get out of your bubble sometimes and interact with people?\nReading your comment makes me shiver, to think there are still hardcore racist like this as Malaysians.", "Bro, in what way are Chinese Malaysians treated far worse than blacks in the US?", "This clown hasn't heard of apunenehs apparently", "Go learn history bro", "Bro, u have Malay politicians openly tell the Chinese to go back to China. Which part of Malaysia do u live in? Do u have the US government tell the blacks to go back to Africa because America.is for whites? Do u hear the American government threaten the Blacks that they were not welcome in the US altho they were born there? Duh. .I know my facts and lived thru racism there..so don't tell me bs bro. I m just stating the truth in Malaysia for the Chinese..if u can't handle it,.so be it.\nRacism in any country is bad but the sad truth is no one hides in Malaysia."], ["Generally the older generations can be very racist, they're mostly the product of their time and don't think being racist is a big deal. For Gen Z onwards there's absolutely no reason to be racist piece of shit. These people mostly just wanna be edgy or going all out to be an asshole because it's cool. Otherwise, they are people who grew up in an echo chamber and never go out their comfort zone when socialize. And I'm speaking of people of all skin colors."], ["That is messed up. Probably weren't even aware his words reek racism."], ["This is why bumi rights are created", "Do we kill them with kindness instead?"], ["Is he a boomer generation?\nIMO, quite common among this generation.", "Yes.."], ["He is racist and weak that why he only focus on the disadvantage in life. Life condition him to be that way. But guess what even if he born as malay he will find some other negative on Chinese and other races also.\nCan't help him but to pity him.\nWe should all be equally treated and look for the positive side of the world."], ["This type is typical uncle lah, but this one so atrocious in his racism. Malay ex muslim here, I think people that hate Malays and Islam have a history of hatred and bigotry themselves and perhaps even a superiority complex. I personally forgive those who have wronged me, even if I\u2019m denied my rights to leave the religion I have no hatred for you guys. I want to live my own life too. I think more people should be tolerant and empathetic to each other, you and me Indian or Chinese we are no different except than the classes and caste that the racist society has laid down upon us. I\u2019m not blaming all Malays here, I know there are many Malays that disagree with racism and special privileges. Malays that are secretly no longer faithful. Malays that are humanistic but also still believe in a higher power. I have no problem with humans preserving their humanity and sympathy for others. Please ppl, what our country need for change is for us to try and relate. See what\u2019s it\u2019s like to be in other people\u2019s shoes."], ["He's wrong to make those comments. But I heard that Malaysian racism was fundamentally perpetrated by the unfair policies from the government. Malay people got all the benefits based on their race. If this doesn't change there's no way to deal with racism."], ["Dude. We are all racist to some degree.\nJust unlucky you met uncle who could keep quiet..\nDid you tell him directly you're uncomfortable and for him to just be quiet?"], ["As a Malay, I wonder what Chinese who regularly engage with the foreigners or expats tell them about Malays and Malaysia in general. I studied in Europe and I was once asked by my Eurpoean classmate whether it's true in Malaysia everyone is prohibited from drinking becayse Islam dictates us. I was like, \"everyone? you sure?\". Sigh. FYI, we have Malaysian Chinese in the class too, so I kinda sus thats where they got the wrong info from. Again, not all Chinese. Chinese are like Kelantanese, well organised and unionised people, but their unity kinda annoy people around them.", "Maybe Islam is the one who make a bad name to Malaysia?", "As for the case of drinking, only the Muslims are prohibited tho. Not everyone. Non muslims rights to their lifestyle is duly protected.", "but majority of the population doesn't want Malaysia to be promoted that way...They'll rather let Malaysia to be known as the Mecca of the east or something and Islam doesn't have good reputations among western Europeans", "I'm currently studying in Europe and whenever someone ask if they should go to Malaysia, I tell them just go there for the food and nature"], ["i love malays", "i only got malay friends tho, maybe they can find me a cupboard to live in... like anne frank", "Not in this economy bruh ain't feeding another mouth.", "i love how this post is some chinese dude being racist to malay, then u malay dudes are doing the same where the love bro? one malaysia", "I am an equal opportunity hater. I am Malay, I hate Malays, and I hate other races also.", "I am an equal opportunity liker. I like everyone", "Hello, this comment was removed due to being in breach of Rule 1: Bigotry and hate speech. Because of our history Malaysia talks about certain issues such as race very differently from Western countries. We acknowledge this on the subreddit but do draw some boundaries to keep discussions healthy.\nDefinition of bigotry: The act of treating the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.\nBasic principle: If it's an attribute of a person that is out of their control and extremely hard or impossible to change, it's not nice to dump on them or their group just for that attribute.\nSome categories this applies to: Race, religion, sexuality, disability, national origin.\nSlurs: Use of slurs on the above categories is not encouraged on this subreddit and may be subject to warnings and bans.\nExample: Religion: It's okay to discuss and criticise aspects of the religion itself, but it's not okay to attack people because they are members of that religion (e.g.: Islam but not Muslims).\nPlease treat this as an official warning - further such activity may result in a ban, thanks."], ["Maybe you are not a racist, but most of the people around you are."], ["Deep down we are all racist."], ["After reading the post and comments I want to preface again how important this is every race has racists residing in them and they all come in different ways to be racists so yes sure Chinese racists can be this and Malay racists can be that still doesnt excuse racism as a whole.\nOk we got that out the way then my opinion in this incident is that these type of people should be reviewed and viraled online publically for any racists to finally change their views and learn from it.\nHowever I also want to say that just because this Chinese guy did this doesnt mean every Chinese person are like this. Because what he did or say the first few times are fine like \"Malays frequent this place\" or \"starbucks boycotting\" what ISNT OK is that he just flats out says something he doesnt like about Malays and say \"Malays like you lah\" really shows how little he has communicated or formed any deep friendships with any Malays in his time on a country literally named \"Malay\"sia."], ["Lol cina kena racism everyday never see we bark also. U go mamak as a cina see u kena or not..for us it is business as usual duh"], ["based uncle", "Bruhh \ud83d\udc80"], ["Racist betul . Really unacceptable. Leave an honest feedback on this driver please"], ["Literally nothing he said was racist against Malay, you are too sensitive bro and need a thicker skin"], ["Damn so many racists here in these comments. Btw if u wanna race, lets do rally. More challenging \ud83d\udd25"], ["Use your special privilege to ask him back tongsan, chinese are minority am i right."], ["Adoiii do we live in your head rent free or what? \ud83e\udd23"], ["Wait.. the op post getting down votes\ud83d\ude02"], ["Two sides of the same coin unfortunately"], ["1st time?"], ["I guess certain race mod tak tahan makan cili"], ["I would have confronted him in the face. It\u2019s offensive to have this kind of racism thrown at your face.\nYou let it pass and he will never learn, the next customer will suffer."], ["Review, \"thank you but please shut up next time, I need a driver not a storyteller\""], ["pay no mind to it\nIt's a fact that stupid, racist, sexist, and selfish-aholes exist. We either act as a responsible member of society to do something about it, or just pay no mind to it if we can't do anything. Not worth thinking about them"], ["well, now you probably know why he isnt doing other work...a person of such EQ couldnt possibly be in any team based jobs"], ["Thats why he become a grab driver and not working elsewhere that need more intellects"], ["Just post out his phone number and personal details, he will receive the warning soon"], ["Woah, if we\u2019re behaving this way here, I can only image the true extent of the racial sentiment outside of the Reddit bubble which should be the paragon of progressivism.\nThe future outlook of this country grows gloomier by the day. To be honest, I think we deserve it."], ["pancing jgn x pancing... kasi kelentong.. crowd mentality, sheep mentalty, human saikology.. kasi ja... hantam ha ha ha ha... ada chance.. baru natang beruk"], ["As a grab driver, It's not that rare lol. I've heard so many remarks made by these dinasours. But I'm actually more hopeful with new gen chinese. They're more open minded, sincere and polite imo. Lots can actually converse well in malay."], ["Tbh there isn't any racism undertones, but there are remarks made along the lines of racial stereotyping i can understand why OP feels uncomfortable, don't think it's necessary to do anything beyond brushing it off"], ["there is a reason why it becomes like this."], ["Plenty of those racist in this sub. You're wasting your time posting here."], ["Sorry you went through that. I experienced horrific racism myself - a foreigner who was there because Malaysian friends requested that I come, and signed me up to do something meaningful there.\nThis driver was very rude to me and then asked for 5 stars at the end of the journey. Since I apologetically refused, he became extremely verbally abusive, told me to go back to my country, telling me I expect unreasonable things from Malay people - that he is not rude, he is Malay - and that people from where I \u201cam from\u201d will go burn in hell because we are disgusting. I\u2019m also not actually from the region of the world that he assumed me to be from - most Malaysians love to visit my home country en masse, so it was a fair enough exchange for me to be there.\nI would have preferred your driver to be honest, but evidently, it comes from all groups."]]}
{"title": "The Public Finance and Fiscal Responsibility Act 2023 has been gazetted and will take effect on 1st Jan 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ubhwo/the_public_finance_and_fiscal_responsibility_act/", "num_comment": 9, "flairlabel": ["Economy & Finance"], "header": "", "comments": [["Summary of this Act:\nThis law will mandate the government to issue multiple different financial or economic reports annually and every 3 or 5 years and table them in the Parliament. The Minister of Finance has the responsibility to formulate several fiscal and economical policies and ensure they are adhered to by other government entities.\nIf any factors derail the economic development or financial stability of Malaysia, or if an entity's debt that is guaranteed by the government is about to default, the government need to table a contigency plan or solution to the Parliament or House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat).\nThis law also mandated the government to spend at least 3% of our GDP on development expenditure and to keep the national budget deficit to be not larger than -3% of our GDP. Under this law, the government will also need to keep the national government debt to be lower than 60% of our GDP.\nFailure to keep aforementioned policies and criteria will mandate the government to answer to the Parliament.\nHowever, this not cause a change in government or a government shutdown like in the US if the Parliament decided to not approve the contingency/mitigation plan formulated by the government.\nThis is because the law only said \"If the fiscal adjustment plan is not approved, the House of Representatives may pass a resolution to require the Minister to improve the fiscal adjustment plan to be laid in the House of Representatives as soon as practicable\""], ["The whole Act can be accessed here:\nhttps://lom.agc.gov.my/act-detail.php?act=850&lang=BI&date=29-12-2023#timeline\nPDF version:\nhttps://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1946989_BI/WJW23%EF%80%A21340%20BI.pdf\nThis whole Act, except section 37 and 38, will come into force on 1st of January 2024:\nhttps://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?type=pub&language=BI&no=P.U.%20(B)%20584/2023%20584/2023)\nThe Prime Minister, with the YDPA power delegated to him, has prescribe the authoritative text of this Act and its subsidiary legislation shall be in English:\nhttps://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?type=pub&language=BI&no=P.U.%20(B)%20585/2023%20585/2023)"], ["Thank you OP:26561:"], ["\ud83d\udca9\nDSAI: Reee one person cannot hold both PM and Finance Minister portfolio.\nMadanon: Anyways.", "Anwar wrested some of Finance Minister\u2019s powers by instituting this Act, and it took him less than a year to introduce the bill. Did any previous Finance Minister make the effort to propose the law?", "Is that a rhetorical question? The point he made about FM and PM not being held by one person over the years meant nothing?\nYou're saying if he didn't hold both of the portfolio or someone else had it, there's zero chance of reform or new laws being enacted. I suppose we could always look at the dark days of the first PH government under Tun. Maybe the PM should always hold the Finance Minister post in perpetuity.", "I understand if you are disappointed with this.\nFor now, please be assured that Anwar has done major reforms in the ministries that he personally oversees. For the Finance Ministry, which is an indispensable ministry that handles the country\u2019s Treasury and is currently facing fiscal constraints, Anwar has introduced this Fiscal Responsibility Act and stipulated that all government procurement processes must be done through open tender. For the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he has instructed to start working on separating the powers between the Attorney General and the Deputy Public Prosecutor.\nThere is also now a Second Finance Minister to take a more hands-on role in the ministry.", "Hindsight is 20/20. Of course we are hopeful for proposed changes, and it would take awhile to see their effects. Let's hope for the best for now :29091::29091::29091:"], ["Any other countries doing this? Any chance the info able to identify scum moves like 1MDB buying land from government and selling it back with inflated price?"]]}
{"title": "Genuine Question: Why restaurants like these suddenly appear all over Malaysia?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u5fo3/genuine_question_why_restaurants_like_these/", "num_comment": 132, "flairlabel": ["Food"], "header": "", "comments": [["Just like how the boba tea was the crazed a few years ago and many stores keep popping up.\nThis time it's these type lo, in mainland China, they're very easy to dapao, pack and eat during rush hours. Convenient food.", "To add on, boba tea craze has transform itself into \u65b0\u8336\u996e(new tea drink -direct translated). basically it has 3 distinctive features - premium ingredients, digitalisation & tech, & branding. Nowadays you can see tealive tryna re-position itself and convert to more tealive+ stores. However I\u2019m not sure if it can actually beat mixue & chagee/beutea\nTl;dr mid range bubble tea business is quite fucked", "Mixue / chagee is meta nowadays. Still remembered when bubble tea first started, bubble tea stores were more packed than a club on a weekend lol!", "If the meta = using creamer for milk tea I rather not drinking.", "can other boba tea shops even compete with Mixue being around? They offer the same stuff (it's just milk tea + mass produced boba lmao how different can it be) for way cheaper that I sometimes wonder do the franchisee really make any profit, or I've been overestimating just how much the raw materials cost for these things", "Mixue = creamer. They don't use real milk. How different can it be? Day and night.\nEven their ice cream is not milk. It's too artificial for me to eat it.", "Mixue tastes heavily processed. Cant stand it. Their soft serve taste like sweet shaving cream to me - processed taste. Just max 3 licks & decided its not for me.\nChagee,heytea, gongcha, koi .. got natural taste."], ["Mostly established by Chinese nationals from China; competition in China is tough; some may not have a chance to create or earn a respectable living in China, so they relocate to Malaysia for Business.\nThere will be some loopholes as well, as some of them wanted to diversify their investment and money, and as we all know, China is quite rigorous about money flowing out, leaving them no alternative but to establish businesses outside of China.", "Also monopoly of targeted Chinese market share.", "With such a large population, anything they do would be perceived as monopolistic; after all, the country took 50 years to attain its current state. Their mindset at this age is still to advocate for a better lifestyle and living conditions. Whereas in other developed nations, the mentality is long gone, and people increasingly seek work-life balance and a sense of purpose in life.\nWith a population of 1.3 billion or 1.4 billion people, moving from poverty to middle class is a highly difficult challenge.\nUpcoming Nation might be India which population surpass China.", "Considering how said mentality us still prevalent in easern countries(japan korea singapore), i doubt its a chinese only issue", "Is it even worth it\u2026most of my chinese office mates prefer local Chinese or hong kong/taiwan food and obviously this is not targeted towards the majority muslim population. Can they survive?", "Personally, I prefer Hong Kong and Taiwanese cuisine. My Generation Z friend, on the other hand, adores Chinese cuisine. But I'll still eat but not preferable because their food is strong in flavor, oily, and spicy, and I prefer sambal lol.", "They can. This is just \u9810\u5236\u83dc. The safety standard and taste is far from freshly cooked meal. Even China themselves don't want to eat it.", "This is the only correct answer. What cannot be sold in China goes to malaysia. Malaysia has always been trashbin for anything can't sold in China."], ["Because of the influence of China.\nIf you go Pasar Malam, many stalls are selling China street food as well.", "China street food example? I go to a Chinese pasar malam. The new thing I saw recently was some Taiwanese pinwheel pancake. Was nice but definitely foreign influence.", "The entire Nyomya cuisine is \u201cChinese influenced\u201d, among other things. Foreign influence has been floating around for ages all over SEAsia", "You see the burst of god damn stinky tofu ? That\u2019s Chinese influence.", "Stinky tofu has been around for ages though. I remember stinky tofu at my local pasar malam 15+ years ago. Plus would you call that Chinese influence? Stinky tofu for me is more of taiwanese influence than Chinese.", "You are right. Stinky toufu is more Taiwan than China. It's everywhere in Taiwan night market.", "Stinky toufu is Taiwan if you every been to Taiwan you will see stinky rough everywhere.", "The pasar malam in Taman Connaught, Kuala Lumpur is full of china foods now, and it's so expensive. Back then we eat at pasarmalam bc we r broke, now only the rich will eat at pasarmalam..", "I nearly laughed sadly at this. So sad but true."], ["This is basically Zhap Fan, aka Chinese Nasi Campur. Chinese people loves Nasi Campur, but the formula is almost always the same.\nI think one franchise was brought in and it became an instant hit with the locals. And because Chinese businessmen being Chinese businessmen, they like to tap on the market ASAP, earn the big money while it's still hot.\nThey should import/make a halal version while they are at it, because halal sells... A LOT.", "Cannot simply call yourself halal nowadays. Can easily backfire.", "Their target audience are usually mainland Chinese", "as a non chinese i wonder how malaysian chinese feel about mainland chinese in malaysia", "Not gonna lie, most of it is expensive."], ["kinda strange to hear that this is also happening in Malaysia too\n(Similar thing also happening in Thailand)\nthese restaurants are mostly run by Chinese nationals", "They learnt a thing or two from Thailand. If China was to be a powerhouse they\u2019ll need soft power too. And that soft power is in the form of food diplomacy. And it\u2019s kinda working", "I think it's desperate move rather than attempt to gain soft power. Read the \u9810\u88fd\u83dc scandal recently in China."], ["Many Chinese people \u6da6(run) from China, in Singapore the Chinatown literally just all Szechuan stuff \ud83d\ude05 I can\u2019t even find other fujian hokkien restaurants"], ["Some are shell companies/restaurants for Chinese nationals to get their family out of china.\nSetup f&b business, say you need someone to manage the business, send your family member over to manage the business.\nRinse and repeat. If they make a business out of it, great. If not, at least can get out of the country and take some money out as well", "Source: trust me bro", "It's not even a wild guess. Why do you think Chinese nationals are spreading their wealth to Australia,Canada and Singapore nowadays?", "In case things turn to shit in china they can escape to those countries", "Because rich Chinese ppl like buying nice fancy new things. Same like how rich Indian/ Middle Eastern/ insert random nationality do the same", "Many Chinese national \u6da6 to many countries, mihoyo setup another office in Montreal in case shit goes bad for gaming in China", "You don't understand the CCP very well...", "Ah, the local CCP expert have arrived.", "I\u2019m sure you u/arbiter12 our resident CCP armchair expert knows better", "China restrict their people from going out of the country?", "More like they restrict capital outflow.", "China restrict their people\u2019s money from going out of the country"], ["Cause it\u2019s been proven time to time where mainland china food suits majority of chinese malaysian palettes. ie: any mala hotpot, sour fish, smelly snail noodle. By the growth of these restaurants and human traffic patronising it, I think it gives confident to f&b owner/investor, just copy paste the shit from china and it will be a hit.", "I wonder if they would make it halal. I would so would love to try it", "It\u2019s expensive to make it halal when the food itself is already quite cheap.", "I mean making it halal attracts more customers which can offset and even give more profit", "Also mean less chinese will go to you", "Doesn't matter since the food now targets potentially 60% of Malaysia population, more profit to be made", "Issue with making some food halal is that, not every ingredient is halal, example they\u2019re using some proprietary or their preferred brand of soy sauce or mala sauce, which is sourced from China, which don\u2019t have halal certification.\nSo they can\u2019t get halal here.\nTo make something halal, they\u2019ll need to restructure their entire logistic and sourcing, which does not make sense for tiny profit margins.", "I\u2019ve seen quite a few Hui Chinese (Mainland Muslim Chinese) restaurants around Setapak in Danau Kota, you could check those out. I remember seeing a few Uyghur ones elsewhere in Setapak too, can\u2019t remember exactly where though.\nNot sure if they have Halal certification but should be since I regularly see other Malays eating there", "I am still not used to it. Also feel like the dishes are monotonic."], ["F&B business is one of the riskiest things you can invest in so people tend to jump onto one fad to another to follow the crowd. From bubble tea shops, to fried stuff and finally to this", ":26554:What could be greater risk than competing with a population of 1.4 billion people?\nAny second, you'll be replaced by someone fresh. :26558:"], ["Because teenagers these days be scrolling DouYin and watching lame ass China content, China food has been growing in influence. Only thing they offer is cheap, not any tastier, quality is also not there (taste and presentation vary quite noticeably from branch to branch)."], ["Hate to say this but take your own risk for eating in this kind of restaurant. There are actually no cooks. All of them are just staff that trained to heat up food.\nIf you know chinese, you can look up on \u201c\u9884\u5236\u83dc\u201d to learn more about it, but in short, it's basically pre-cooked food that is then chilled and ready to be eaten once reheated. The food can last around a year before it goes baf"], ["Personal experience: So I have been traveling around southern and middle part of Semenanjung and I see these restaurants in a lot of places. The food is decent but overpriced (since I can eat a way better meal with more meat/seafood at other restaurant with the same amount of money).\nI am wondering whether they all belong to the same tauke \ud83e\udd14", "It\u2019s really expensive but for China nationals this is more to their preferred taste over Malaysian Chinese food. Although I\u2019m Chinese but I don\u2019t really like a lot of China\u2019s cuisine.", "You are not alone, I\u2019m fujian Chinese and I prefer Malaysian hokkien food more than fujian hokkien food more \ud83d\ude02 Curry Mee is really good then you have Nasi Kerabu (Malay), and nyonya cuisine. All these are just very good", "It's basically expensive chap fan.", "It's basically expensive chap fan.\nTechnically Truth, In my opinion is more cater for family size \"Chap Fan\" rather than individual.", "Interesting", "I'm just curious, where are you from? If you're from Penang island I'm surprised it hasn't arrived there, since these states have the highest Malaysian Chinese concentration so the PRC will import to these places first. Especially the cina cina type, they're very attuned to what's hot in China and will quickly latch onto anything exported over.\nFor this style of serving, I'd say it's very common in China, packed exactly how delivery food looks like. In fact at first I thought you were posting something from China."], ["Obviously businessman coming from china n Taiwan, they have to expand their business"], ["Mamak can't always rule the night, the chinese gotta keep up", "These are not local Chinese though"], ["Basically chapfan with more bowl to wash"], ["Franchise expansion, said business is probably dwindling in China so they opted for oversea expansion. Malaysia is one of the prime location because of many china citizen staying in Malaysia for various reasons", "Yup, the revival of MM2H program."], ["Trending XHS Duo ying China pop\nIs expensive and not delicious \ud83d\ude13"], ["To add on. Some of these stores won\u2019t breakeven. Probably tastes mediocre or normal at best.\nThey are for the Chinese to wash $; these losses etc allow them to move funds legally out of China."], ["I have a theory that One condition for China to invest in Malaysia we also have accept them to open business here also so that Chinese China don't be ackward when come here when looking for food"], ["rise of china influence in tiktok and xhs. personally i hated it. might as well eat mixed rice"], ["Decent taste, decent price, open to the wee hours, clean premises and have you seen the quality of the chap fan stalls these days. They have been taking advantage of the poor quality of chap Fan stalls and kept opening more location"], ["A loophole in our law to get citizenship, establish a business here and they will be able to move here"], ["Whenever I see this, it reminds me of a video about how chinese chef is able to recreate savoury pork bone soup from a whole bunch of artificial seasoning, without a single piece of bone or meat, and this give me the same vibe. Like how does one serve hot chinese or any asian meal, in fast food style?", "It is indeed, that\u2019s why I don\u2019t really like trying different food in China especially northern and central. I usually do lots of research before choosing the restaurant to go", "agreed\nsomehow I'd prefer Indian, Malay or whatever (I'm local Chinese)\nbut\nI'm kinda bored on Chinese food tbh", "Shichuan cuisine fatique. I have that too. Everything tastes salty, mala spicy, and oily", "yeap indeed"], ["Low creativity. Just copy paste everything from China and prays it works. Just fed up of all China copycat. Where is the OG?"], ["The type of Restaurants where the owner are most probably from mainland China? Since the sanction from USA and big businesses all around the world are in the process of decoupling (pulling out their factories and stores from China), China's economy is now in shambles. It matters a lot when you have to feed a whole country of billions of people that suddenly out of jobs.\nLong story short, they are looking business elsewhere from mainland to survive. Since Malaysia has close ties with China, and it has existing Chinese living in it, it would be an ideal market. Same with Thailand and Vietnam.", "no bruh US is not sanctioning China like this.", "That's not what they're saying, look past the word sanction and focus on the word decoupling.\nChina has the so-called three horse carts that drive their economy: exports, investments, internal consumer spending\nExports: Due to the decoupling efforts led by USA (but tbh they shot themselves in the foot with the insane COVID lockdowns, as Atrioc would put it xjp is scaring the hoes, they're having issues with capital flowing out of the country on an immense scale at the moment) their exports are weakening.\nThere has always been limited investment opportunities in china due to the corruption and inconsistent authoritarian iron fist of the CCP, and for a long time real estate was the only option to invest in, and now that's in shambles, and all there's left in investment is the government itself investing in bad infrastructure projects. Those investments are not driving the economy effectively.\nInternal consumer spending: they're on a deflationary spiral at the moment with extremely high youth unemployment (they stopped publishing the numbers a couple months ago even). Households are also riddled with debt (tied to their real estate bubble burst). No one's gonna spend or take up new debt\nIf you speak Chinese and follow/keep up with financial/economy related news and online content/sentiment, you'll see a very prominently negative outlook on the future of the country amongst China's populace. It's not just big money and business moving out of the country; anyone who can afford it are advised to leave the country too to seek greener pastures elsewhere. Apparently a lot of them are going to USA, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia"], ["The influence of China is huge on Chinese teenagers and even young adults here in Malaysia. The Chinese TikTok app (douyin) and another social media called \u2018\u5c0f\u7ea2\u4e66\u2019 has too much influence on people here. Also, a lot of young kids on that app post very stupid stuff and embarrass our country\u2019s name. As the app is only intended to be used by China residents, a lot of Malaysian videos on that platform that reaches the China residents\u2019 feeds have comments filled with explaining what Malaysian Chinese is because most people think that Malaysia only has Malay people. The only reason I see as to why officials of the Chinese apps are not banning access to the app from outside countries, is to collect data and info on us, as is in their own country as well to gain a better control and power over the world.\nMalaysian Chinese love these kinds of stores because they are usually cheap (due to cheap ingredients that are mostly made from chemicals) and taste good because of the absurd amount of sodium and fats present in their food.\nUsually these stores are loved by lalazai and lalamuis those materialistic(which is also gotten from Chinese culture) kids wearing \u2018adlv\u2019 or \u2018I don\u2019t smoke shirts\u2019 with their dyed hair and anything they put on or buy to make them look rich", "Cheap ingredients made from chemical? Proof that happens in Malaysia?", "Im not sure about this restaurant but have u tried MiXue? Yeah just tasting it you know it\u2019s chemicals, even the air conditioner smell has a very concentrated chemical smell", "Only RM2.90 for a lemon drink, hella confirmed it's made of chemicals."], ["Due to the increasing amount of China Chinese study abroad here"], ["Same like boba shops and yogurt drinks shops, it\u2019s a trend"], ["wonder how many of these will flop.", "With the amount of poor quality chap fan store these days still existing, I don't think so unless they drastically raised their prices"], ["Genuine question also: what do you mean by \u2018these restaurants\u2019?\nFor context, im a Malay who likes noodles and most of chinese food lol", "It is just like mixed rice but the dishes are pre-plated. You take the dish from the table just like you do with mixed rice. The price is cheaper than ordering freshly cooked so it feels like it is affordable.\nIf you go as a couple, each one takes 2 dishes suddenly you get 4 dishes to be shared.\nA typical Chinese restaurant will charge RM10++ for a vegetable dish. Rm15-20++ for a small meat dish."], ["The store looked interesting then I remembered I\u2019m Malay and that ain\u2019t a halal place"], ["Oh this, these places tend to be overpriced af, but it has that allure of \"authentic Chinese (mostly Si Chuan or Chong Qing) cuisine\" so no matter how expensive the dishes are ppl will still go there\nI do prefer them over regular mix rice simply because of the mapo tofu"], ["Non-Malaysian here but my guess would be that these are made by either Chinese nationals trying to have diverse income source or maybe Chinese Malaysians (?) ?"], ["I live in Canada and shops in our malls are closing, just to be replaced by these stores selling cheap knock-off clothing."], ["chinese culture invation"], ["Where the Bin Chi Ling?", "somewhere near Bin La Den"], ["Thanks for letting me know such Chinese restaurants exist in Malaysia now. I shall plan a trip this coming January when I travel up north\nTo answer your question it's because Sichuan cuisine is loved by Chinese diaspora all over the world, so some Chinese Nationals residing here are just making bank off of the craze", "Not all Chinese diaspora...\nSichuan cuisine is not native to Malaysian Chinese palates, nor did it have much of a presence in our cuisine until recent years. Hokkien, Hainan, Hakka, Teochew style food were our staples. Please don't think of Chinese diaspora cultures as a homogeneous thing.", "It's not native to Singapore too, but in recent years it's really been making a huge impact here. Chinatown here is now overrun by many Sichuan restaurants run by Chinese nationals, there's more Hai Di Laos everywhere, every school and university has a mala stall in their canteen, and we've had mala KFC, potato chips and other snacks too because everyone loves it now"], ["It's marketing. Package it differently, charge more. I make ownself cheaper."], ["china Australia also like this lol"], ["Pot, bowl style fast food trending."], ["money.\nthere's really no other reason for businesses to open."], ["Under the same consultant company I guess. The consultant company offers the project and investors or boss interest in it."], ["It targets a very specific market, young people who now have a limited budget and little time to cook/eat well.\nI'm in that target group, this suits me to a tee, cheap wholesome non-processed food."], ["Because opening in Malaysia cheaper than opening in Singapore."], ["Because China mainland are here to stay"], ["So many answers, but nobody mentioned that it's actually quite cheap and affordable for the price no?"], ["Like every other F&B trend in Malaysia: someone became a supplier, and convinced a bunch of people to open up shop, buying their supplies from them. Hence, many of them have the exact same materials/style."], ["Looks tasty and quite cheap? Kinda hope someone will make for a muslim one."], ["The era of delivery, they're easy to deliver"], ["30 days Visa free for chinese citizen is an invasion."], ["A meal for rm8? Sign me up man. Honestly i just want good zapfan, dont really care where they come from. If its a good addition to my wallet, ill happily embrace them into my neighbourhood. No longer need to pay the stingy zapfan aunty take small portions still blink eye can charge like rm15+"], ["Restoran viral"], ["There's always a trend that will last around 10 - 20 years until something else comes up. 30 years ago we had DeliFrance. After that we had Coffee Bean until Old Town White Coffee came. Now you see DeliFrance no more, Old Town also doing so-so la along with Coffee Bean. The BobaTea craze has been around few gears already still strong but now came to Boba tea ice-cream craze. In few years, all these will also be dying all gone when something new came up. All for syok saja. Thing is people can get tired of these things especially when they are not cheap"], ["humanity has aged like fine wine, the more futuristic, the more they're fked."], ["If you pay attention to news and global economy you will know China is pushing pre made meal now to cut cost. All those unsold food can sell to Malaysia. Malaysia is pretty much dump for anything that can't sell in China."], ["Ate at a similar store like this in Uptown and I quite enjoy it"], ["why? because people like it. supply and demand."]]}
{"title": "Kuala Selangor fauna(Mangrove broadwalk to Eagle feeding)", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18uhfb7/kuala_selangor_faunamangrove_broadwalk_to_eagle/", "num_comment": 2, "flairlabel": ["Environment"], "header": "", "comments": [["In pic 19, although the tourism board label it as \"Eagle\" feeding,there are no actual eagles, they are Brahminy kites instead which feed along the whiskered terns(limited to 20 photos so did not post clearer image of terns)"], ["Pic #1, your average r/Malaysia nyet :26554:"]]}
{"title": "The Federal Government will relinquish its authority over Sabah's electricity matters on 3rd Jan 2024", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ubwix/the_federal_government_will_relinquish_its/", "num_comment": 15, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["TLDR: The Federal Government has given the State Legislature of Sabah the legislative powers to make laws on the matters of electricity. The Federal Government has also, by multiple gazatted orders, suspended the operation of federal electricity laws in Sabah. All of these will take effect on 3 Jan 2024\nThe Sabah State Legislature is expected to sit during a special session on 3 Jan 2024 to pass a new state law in regards of Sabah's electricity matters.\nGeneral news on this: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2023/12/994264/sabah-exercise-full-authority-over-electricity-accordance-malaysia\n1st pic: https://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?language=BI&type=pua&no=P.U.%20(A)%20393/2023%20393/2023)\n2nd pic: https://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?language=BI&type=pua&no=P.U.%20(A)%20394/2023%20394/2023)\n3rd pic: https://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?language=BI&type=pua&no=P.U.%20(A)%20395/2023%20395/2023)\n4th pic: https://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?language=BI&type=pua&no=P.U.%20(A)%20396/2023%20396/2023)\n5th pic: https://lom.agc.gov.my/act-view.php?language=BI&type=pua&no=P.U.%20(A)%20397/2023%20397/2023)"], ["So if electricity in Sabah still fuck up it's not federal fault it's their state fault now?", "Yes, starting from 3 Jan 2024.\n* Something fuck up in SS *\nSS: Ini semua salah Semenanjung!\nFeds: * Give up power and transfer it to SS states *\n* Something still fuck up in SS *\nSS: [Surprised pikachu face]\nFeds: :26554:\n/jk", "too bad, the legacy effects from Feds may take years to wear off", "oh they will find some way to blame", "One of the comment already preset the blame shift towards \"the legacy effects from Feds may take years to wear off \". So if they start to use that excuse, people like that guy would eat it up easily. Because surely, only the feds are dirty and theirs are squeaky clean. Next, they'll use the word lesser evil as a counter point, same old, same old. Cheers.", "Yeah sabah mp's kroni is salivating right now"], ["Hmm Taib Mahmud - Electricity Edition will be born then.\nSemua kontrak utility Sabah dia akan sapu", "Taib is Sarawak agong, what does it have to do w Sabah?\nSabah have their own blood suckers", "I know, my point and yours are the same. There will be some cronies/blood sucker who monopoly all those deals either directly or indirectly, and Sabah will remain the same despite all resources.", "That why Bung and Shafie want to gether2 against Hajiji", "And u think that\u2019s for the sake of Sabahan? \ud83d\ude02", "Better than Hajiji the \"Sabah Maju Jaya\" signboard guy"], ["Hope it doesn't turn out like Texas."], ["Elon Musk is going to sell tons of Cybertruck :26554:"]]}
{"title": "Self-Collect Shoe Box", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ubfue/selfcollect_shoe_box/", "num_comment": 5, "flairlabel": [], "header": "I went to a 24-hour laundry in Sungai Way, PJ today and what caught my interest was this shoe box machine. I checked the price it cost 18 bucks for 1 pair of wet wash services.\nHas anyone tried this before and is it safe to leave your shoe inside the machine overnight?", "comments": [["How I wish there is one in my area. It is pain in the ass to wash my hiking shoe. RM18 is pretty reasonable."], ["Wow. Thats useful"], ["Someone will come and collect, the will wash em on the washing machine next to it\n/s"], ["Wow gg sunway velocity"], ["Got different pricing in different area ni.\nThe LaundryBar Mega outlet in Damansara Jaya has the box too, but its RM30 instead."]]}
{"title": "Something is wrong (Maybank mae)", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ua2cc/something_is_wrong_maybank_mae/", "num_comment": 20, "flairlabel": [], "header": "This is pissing me off", "comments": [["Yes, this dogshit.\nI believe, -daily limited to reset once -internet issue -no old password\nOr app maintenance. The app is just a failure.", "Gosh and my current manager needs us to create an account now \ud83d\udc80 this is so silly omg", "All good, almost all Malaysian knows the Maybank efficiency.", "Lol I hope she will", "I can confirm the 1 limit password reset per 24hr thing, should put on the list.. Shitty app"], ["wait till u see the UOB app man, i genuinely hate it so much from every aspect", "They didn't have the email feature like what Citibank did. A total downgrade after their acquisition."], ["I wonder why they limit password to only 12 letters, coz usually stronger passwords are longer. Yea i get it i can make strong passwords with 12 chars only but would it be also better if can make it long as well.", "Right? That's so silly too", "cut cost ma... 13 letters got ghost pulak. what can do?", "CIMBClicks have a higher character limit but they don't allow copy-pasting your password in their Android app because of security.", "That\u2019s the opposite of security"], ["They still run on old legacy system that built on COBOL, hence the limiting characters and options for a modern secure password.", "Not surprising. COBOL developers are highly sought after by banks, tax agencies etc."], ["yes. the fking password is ridiculously short for a BANK\nmy shitposting twitter account has more security"], ["Yo bro. I also had this problem, went to contact their staff and they told me to create the new password on their website instead of the app. It actually worked for me.\nHope this helps"], ["Start a using @ 0 4 $ in the password.. if you want to maintain the old password, but not same as old password Example P@$$w0rd"], ["Yup I quit when reaching this step"], ["Same issues here, been trying to open account since last month, posted 1star Google Play review, they asked to me to contact then via Twetter and told me to go to maybank branch when I asked then to fix the app registation they were like 'Trust me bro, just go to the Maybank branch', Freaking lazy Dev.\nAlso what's up with the shitty password guidelines? 12 Characters limit, really? Even my Password Manager told the generated password for MAE has a poor security, its also prevent users to use Passphrase due to character limits. Latest Password guidelines recommends length limit of at least 64 characters to allow people to use Passphrase Like Diceware which is strong but easily remembered password if you wanna know more check out this video!"]]}
{"title": "Sheraton Move, London Move and now, Dubai Move?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ua5yr/sheraton_move_london_move_and_now_dubai_move/", "num_comment": 64, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Lol they know if Sultan Johor becomes YDPA in a few months, they can\u2019t stand a chance.", "he likes anuar?", "Tun M has bad blood with Johor royalty", "The fact that this come after Daim got put in the naughty list ,Tun M know he have less time to do his move", "About 32 days left.\nIt's the final countdown intensifies", "Almost checkmate \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02", "ahh, yes. thank you. totally forgot that", "What am I missing here? Is mahathir doing some shit? Why now? IIRC he isn't even an MP. This government is already a bit of a shitshow, they should just let Anwar cook so they can just swoop in for a won next election.", "I think what they are trying to do is create the narrative that they are the saviours of the Malay race. One key difference I noticed with the Malay community this time that is absent during the Sheraton move is the rapid decline of the malays into political extremism. You can see this on twitter (who have always been a PH stronghold) where everyday it gets worse and worse. If they collapse the government, they will be hailed as heroes of the Malay community and ride that shit to secure a decade or more of power", "Mahathir 97 bro. You think he can wait next election?", "Yes, but also that's what I thought when I voted in PH last election.\n\"He's 90 something, how long can he not pass to Anwar.\"\nAnd I was ohhh so wrong.", "Bro one heart discomfort and top 10 best heart doctors would surround him, he aint going anywhere.", "Mahatir goes into power today. Tomorrow scientists announce a pill to prolong livespan.", "But they ingat current Agung dumb ?"], ["Apart from PN leaders, he claimed there was also the involvement of influential veteran political figures with the rank of Tun\nI wonder who could that be... \ud83d\ude0f", "Tun Perak maybe \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f", "Man comes back from the dead to make us into a superpower like the good old days.", "Someone should make a manga of that.", "Tan Tin Tun?", "Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat.\nThey deserve Tun title more than the other two turds.", "Tunak Tunak Tun"], ["At this rate, \"Langkah\" will be Malaysia's equivalent to \"-gate\".", "Langkah Batang Berjuntai when?", "Everyday.\nWhen we get fucked by the government.", "Chun tai?\nWtf"], ["Sounds stupid. Opposition too busy talking about bringing down government and not taking care of their own constituents. What happened to gabungan 4? Any projects that will develop kelantan, terengganu kedah and perlis? Or just gonna buy another mazda cx5.", "PN was in gov for more than 2 yrs, what major development projects were implemented in the East Coast and Northern states?", "Project Kereta baru merc/vielfire\nProject pi makan nikah 50 kali tahun ini", "Why would they care about their constituents.\nIt's all about the gaji buta and SUV's."], ["Mr. Worldwide"], ["RIP MYR man. Can\u2019t we just have a stable term for the government?", "Until a single party or single coalition has a simple majority. Since 2018, no coalition nor party has that golden number.\nSo expect a shaky government for the next election cycle or two.", "simple majority\nWrong. Larger majority. Don't need to be 2/3rds, but enough that some frogs won't topple them."], ["A viral message on social media recently claimed that a plan was being hatched in Dubai, dubbed the Dubai Move, by representatives of Umno, PN and GPS.\nPN teamming with H2O's anti-Zahid camp is one thing, but GPS? Are those guys very greedy to the point that they are willing to work with the same guys who will damage Sarawak's social diversity?\nEh who am I kidding. Borneo politicians are labeled as frogs for a reason.", "GPS always there cause they know they r King Maker by playing both side they can get rewards when anyone come to power , why would they want making Malaysia great,it's better if Sarawak is great. You can see that some policy Sarawak do not follow federal,like Sarawak want pmr/spm style exam in there state,push for more control in oil related field and etc", "Do you think they even care about making Sarawak great? What have they done since?", "hard to put into words i guess", "offering pm position is too juicy to say no", "I thought PNPAS coalition PM candidate is this DR Sam that Pas supporters keep bring up?", "then there is 0 incentive for GPS to support them. they are DPM now.", "Didn't GPS initially supported Muhyiddin as PM before Anwar persuaded them to team up with PH", "There were some small scale protests in Sarawak when Abang Jo flew to meet Muhyiddin and then talks of potential riots materialised later, after that they walked back and was suddenly friendly to Anwar.\nA certain someone high up in the Sarawak cabinet is a petty man and has targeted several DAP rep's family members that work in the public sector. Even those who are just small secretaries lost their jobs because they were related to a DAP member.\nThe man is a tyrant and he just wants a political party that would support his tyrannical rule, working with PH means he still has to work with the opposition in his state."], ["It\u2019s time for the Anwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Special."], ["If I were not mistaken, they hatched this plan while YDPA was at Dubai for the UN Climate Change Conference"], ["Imagine if they used all of this cunning and energy to do their actual jobs. Malaysia would lead the world."], ["Here we go again"], ["This ain't madagascar, but they sure like the song."], ["Expected Tun M Cronies' relationship with Sultan Johor is shaky (In Blood War)\nMore to come as everyone runs for their lives.:26554:"], ["3 years of political crisis n we passed a bill to stabilise government. Would the King want to be the factor that throw a working gov into crisis again?\nAny decision has to be consulted w the Council of Rulers including the Sultan of Johor", "Anything they have to do it before 31st Jan 2024.\nI'll bet my left nut new YDPA will not do a certain Tun any speckle of favor. Which this move is clearly head by.", "Actually, at 1 point theres no choice. If a law does not pass, then the PM have no choice but to resign or call for election. Because it shows the PM no longer have the majority.", "I think a motion of no confidence need to be called first\nNot law no pass = resign/re elections\nThat sounds too abusable to be an actual proceeding.\nAnyhow if its a motion of no confidence, PN is screwed. Fat chance they can out buy the sitting Gov's counter offer.", "Nope. No need. The constitution only states the PM needs the majority of parliament. Theres 2 ways to determine it\n1) as you said, motion of confidence\n2) the passing of laws\nThe passing of laws require a simple majority. A law not passed means dont have a simple majority.\nJust like what happened to muhyiddin. The reason he avoid having a parliament sitting is because if a law is not passed, then he has to step down. A motion of confidence or no confidence can be blocked by the speaker. If motion of no confidence is the only way, then theres no way to remove a sitting PM.", "Council of rulers and Agong can give their say but he still need to a point someone who get majority in the parliament unless he want hang government", "I wonder if its a constitution crisis if the YDPA wanna play games and keep VETOing PM selection from the party that pisses him off.\nCan he do that? Constitution sifu clarification welcomed.\nThat'll be very funny to see.\nI mean very terrible, so please don't do that:26554:", "Current Agong step down early and give the responsibility to the new Agong ie Sultan Johor, GG???", "That will make the old man's head pop off, and spill another Facebook/Twitter rant tornado.\nActually, that would be funnier. To watch that old fart piss and whine his way into 2024:26557:", "Hang parliament? U know what is the bill about? That wont happen already. No reason for the King to overthrow a working government"], ["Guess you could say they like to move it move it, you like to move it move it, we like to? MOVE It!!"], ["This is democracy. Biasa la ni.\nPMX pun dulu slalu announce \u201ci got the numbers\u201d"], ["Uk move(ulu klang move)"], ["With covid and banjir now, this is their main focus wth. And they want to convince us that they are capable of running this country?", "They were never interested with running the country, they just want to run the money"], ["next lancau move"]]}
{"title": "The origin of Anwar\u2019s beef with Tun Daim", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ue1ev/the_origin_of_anwars_beef_with_tun_daim/", "num_comment": 11, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["I doubt Mahathir was forced by anyone.\nHe's not the kind to be forced if he doesn't wanna do anything"], ["The only thing good about Daim is the chocolate.", "Please don't remind me. I wanna eat them now :26557:", "That\u2019s a Swedish company right?"], ["Why this look like fan made You tube video but got that actor that cheat on his wife?", "This is actually from the movie Anwar: The Untold Story"], ["Come on man. Do you guys actually believe this?", "Meanwhile present DSAI on Zahid :\nI guess lesson learnt from the past.", ""], [":26554: RPK said that anwar cronys is under tun daim too same goes to atok.."]]}
{"title": "Gerbang Alaf Restaurants has requested BDS Malaysia to retract damaging statements, post an apology to McDonald\u2019s Malaysia, and cease any actions that harm the company\u2019s reputation.", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u3h2q/gerbang_alaf_restaurants_has_requested_bds/", "num_comment": 87, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["BDS finally managed to piss off Melati Abdul Hai. She is a nice lady, but you do not want to piss her off.", "Backstory?", "She is the current Chief Marketing Officer at McDonald's Malaysia. She was put in charge back when McDonald's Corp (the global McDonald's) sold their Malaysian restaurants and the Malaysian McD license to a Saudi Investment Group. At the time the McDonald's brand in Malaysia was in the ropes and she turned it around. She is a very intelligent and nice woman until you piss her off. If you do, she will come at you with everything she has got and then some.\nSOURCE: I worked with her for many years.", "She sounds like the kind of boss you want. Somebody chosen on merit!", "She sounds badass, any story you are willing to share?", "Only that she drove a lot of innovation on the digital advertising front. So much so that many of the other McDonald's worldwide including the US and Japan started emulating her strategies and McD Malaysia became the reference for digital advertising worldwide for McDonald's. But I don't know if that is still the case.", "Any examples of innovation you can share?", "she started boosting posts on fb.\nEdit: It's a joke guys. adoi. Who is going to share with u something pnc...", "I have to say that out of all fast food chains here, McDonald\u2019s is the best in terms of customer experience and perhaps service by far; and maybe most consistent in their food quality. Since the change of using kiosk ordering, and its app and drive-thru experience, it\u2019s all much efficient compared to last time when ordering via multiple counters with humans. Is this bcos of her?", "Totally agree with you on her.\nSOURCE : Family member", "Isn\u2019t the current CMO Eugene Lee?", "Unless things changed recently, no. Eugene used to be under her, but moved to Singapore to work for McDonald's Corp as the marketing head for emerging markets. But I have been out of the loop for a while, so my info could be outdated.", "Woah someone who is knows some whose is high up in MCD chain of command\u2026. Hey can we used you to get free MCD food \ud83e\udd23", "If you mention my name, they might charge you double :-)", "Aww man \u2026 what a bummer \ud83d\ude14", "Kesian dia, piss off sampai have to limit comments fb and twitter on mekdi page. Looks like this move pissed of the people more."], ["Oh boy, this is not going to end well.\nI can already foresee the shitstorm on Facebook comment section."], ["Reminder that BDS Malaysia is not formally part of the actual Palestinian run BDS movement, and that the main BDS movement does not call for a boycott of McDonald's:\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/make-an-impact", "BDSMovement\nBDSM", "Me after knowing it.", "It is \"endorsed\" by or at least related to the main BDS Movement, and if you actually read the website, they mention that you should follow local campaigns.\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott#:~:text=Check%20with%20BDS%20organisations%20in%20your%20country%20for%20the%20brands%20being%20targeted%20in%20your%20community.\nhttps://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/join-a-bds-campaign?country=Malaysia", "BDS Malaysia is BDS at home"], ["Their logo says Justice, Freedom, Equality lmao. Does this include LGBT and ex-Muslims? Asking for a friend.", "Selective freedom. Damn hypocrisy", "They are living in a delusion society or just being a random exploited puppet.", "Also no mention of justice for non-muslims aka kaffirs.", "Only when theres Jews involved, there is news. For them.", "What about the hostages taken by Hamas? They don't deserve freedom?", "to them, these hostages don't exist. Remember, anything Jew or Israel is bad to them.", "Now swap that Hamas to Israel, it's the same for both.", "It's not like most people are giving a free pass to Israel. But why only condemn Israel when both of them are bad.", "There's literally a video about Hamas freeing Israelis and they are healthy as well. Not the same as Palestinian after 10-20 years being hostage by Israel that come out with mental health/breakdown. You can search for them.", "You know those videos could be PR right? What about the German girl and many women who were raped and murdered? What about the many elderly and children kidnapped? What about the Thais and Nepalis who have nothing to do with this war but were still killed and kidnapped?", "And what? You think I will support rape and killing of German and etc?\nDude, they come to the warzone country, expect that at least.", "This is what I said about giving a free pass to Hamas. Hamas did disgusting shits to civilians and foreigners, you all turn a blind eye and some even support them. You all only attack Israel non-stop. You all are choosing sides, man.", "Some people are just goddamn hypocrite. Side they don't like committing atrocities are bad (that's fair). But when the side they support commit atrocities, suddenly \"it's a warzone\", the victims should expect it.\nSuch a disgusting mentality to have, why is it so hard to say both side are horrible for committing heinous acts?", "And now swap that word to Israel too. Some will support them as well. What's your point here?", "Point taken. Should change their organisation tagline to Justice, Equality and Freedom for Muslim because that is what they are fighting for.", "Congratulations on falling for propaganda\u2026", "Consumed too much hamas propaganda lol", "Rules for thee, not for me", "", "Ummmm, No! No, it does not."], ["Ooh, this is an interesting conflict to see."], ["Finally mcd will it put a nail in their coffin or ?", "They will not unfortunately. Paling teruk pun downsizing jer."], ["I feel they should remain quiet until the boycott has lost momentum."], ["Boikot bukan sebab support yahudi tapi sebab harga 'yahudi' pastu lepas makan lapar balik", "This, harga kasi turun lor"], ["Want to boycott, go ahead. Dont need to speak ill of other ppl. Let the masses decide for themselves"], ["McDonald also to blame. No balls, want to kowtow to blackmailers. Have some backbone and integrity la. Stand strong till the end but instead kowtow to pressure from customers.", "More like pressure from shareholders leh. See their stock hurt since the boycott, now only slowly growing back.", "US MCD stock price has been rising tremendously since Oct 2023 (that's when it started right?). Like 25% up over 3 months.\nHeck, it was crashing since Jun and it turnaround after the boycott, so yay?", "Yup! I made so much money from the boycott. Highly recommend everyone to invest against the next boycot"], ["Damn Terrorist Hamas gang"], ["The opportunist in me wishes that this backfires so hard McD will further lower their price."], ["this is stupid, shit like this just gonna rouse more shit. should've weathered the storm.", "Let\u2019s see how it plays out first , too early to pass judgment whether it\u2019s stupid or otherwise ."], ["I didn\u2019t actually start boycotting McDonald\u2019s until they threatened people with the Sedition Act. Probably not visiting their establishments until they apologize for it."], ["I literally checked BDS Malaysia website, it has not made mention of boycotting McDonald's in its statements.\nWhat is Gerbang Alaf referring to here? Which statements are they asking to retract - can anybody point me to them?", "https://bdsmalaysia.com/boycott/\nThere's literal Mcdonald's picture on there\nhttps://bdsmalaysia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/kempen-terkini-1024x1024.jpg\nhttps://bdsmalaysia.com/2023/10/15/press-statement-by-bds-malaysia-in-response-to-the-statement-by-mcdonalds-malaysia/\nWe note also that various McDonald\u2019s franchisees in countries such as Turkiye, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar have announced efforts to provide aid to Palestinians. We further call on McDonald\u2019s Malaysia to condemn Israeli genocidal policies.\nFailure to do the above will reflect McDonald\u2019s Malaysia\u2019s unconcerned stand as thousands of Palestinians are killed under Israeli bombs and may lead to calls for a boycott of all outlets here in Malaysia.\nHere they basically admits they're \"blackmailing\" Malaysia's Mcdonalds into making a statement against Israel, and also sending aid to Israel\nWhich they did within days\nBDS also said this\nJikalau McD Malaysia keluarkan kenyataan terbuka mengutuk jenayah pembunuhan beramai-ramai yg dilakukan oleh Israel terhadap warga Palestin, inshaAllah, BDS Malaysia akan keluarkan kenyataan bahawa McD bukan lagi dalam senarai sasaran syarikat utk diboikot di Malaysia.\nWhich they failed to do so even after Mcdonald's followed their threats", "Sounds like one of the Fox News tactics of \"tacit agreement\", which should sound familiar to some on here:\n\"... if they're against the atrocities in Gaza, they would have mentioned an opposition against it and yet there isn't any. We are not saying they're supporting to the actions of the aggressors. Just asking the questions here, folks\".\n*deep frowns and silence, staring at the camera*", "tahukah anda k-fry tak pernah condemn Israel", "There's literal Mcdonald's picture on there\nYes, but you need to read what they said about that.\nBerkenaan McD, ia bukan target utama BDS Malaysia. Ia dalam kategori Grassroots organic boycott targets. Berikut penerangan berkenaannya: McDonald\u2019s (AS), Burger King (AS), Papa John\u2019s (AS), Pizza Hut (AS), WIX (Israel), dsb. kini disasarkan di beberapa negara melalui kempen boikot organik akar umbi. Ia bukan dimulakan oleh pergerakan BDS.\nFailure to do the above will reflect McDonald\u2019s Malaysia\u2019s unconcerned stand as thousands of Palestinians are killed under Israeli bombs and may lead to calls for a boycott of all outlets here in Malaysia.\nHere they basically admits they're \"blackmailing\" Malaysia's Mcdonalds into making a statement against Israel, and also sending aid to Israel\nThey're saying that the boycott is happening, but they didn't start it. And they were suggesting McDonald's to be more aggressive in condemning Israel to be clear on their stance, rather than tiptoeing around the issue.\nWhich they failed to do so even after Mcdonald's followed their threats\nDid McDonald's send out a statement condemning Israel?\nWhich they did within days\nThis isn't condemning Israel. This is them giving aid to Gaza. It doesn't mean a lot. Even Israel is giving aid to Gaza.", "It doesn\u2019t mean a lot? What did you do for them, mr. Keyboard warrior?", "Dont you know a strongly worded letter is more impact than RM 1million", "I wonder which stadium would the next goalpost be moved to.", "You're missing the point.\n\"It doesn't mean a lot\" in terms of making a clear stance in condemning Israel. Try to keep up. The reason is in the very next sentence that reads, \"Even Israel is giving aid to Gaza.\"\nNext time, maybe you wanna try to listen and understand what people are saying rather than just thinking about how to respond.", "It\u2019s ok you can take your pointless rhetorics back home where people can listen to your nonsense better.\nBy the way you still haven\u2019t answered me. What have you done so far mr. Keyboard warrior? All philosophical talk and no action? Baliklah\u2026", "nice pivot.", "Great comeback.", "Hey thanks! I'd teach ya, but let's be real \u2013 it's way over your head.\ud83d\ude09", "As real as the whoosh over your big egotistical head?\nHonestly go back to your village where you can continue to feel like you\u2019re the smartest person there."], ["Less burgers less fat kids. All good.", "Good comment but pro zionishit dan malay haters also downvote this"], ["So the boikot is working yes?"]]}
{"title": "Panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur - circa 1900", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u7uxm/panoramic_view_of_kuala_lumpur_circa_1900/", "num_comment": 4, "flairlabel": ["History"], "header": "", "comments": [["Based on my estimation, with the the Sultan Abdul Samad building's clock tower as reference, this picture is probably taken somewhere on the hill where the current Chin Woo Stadium stands, or the current location of Merdeka 118 tower.\nIf you zoom in the photo, you can see some of the buildings in the middle hase chinese architecture on its roof (dragon sculpture on the roof). That row of buildings are probably the current Chinatown of KL.\nYou can also see the old Central Market building on the left near the coconut trees."], ["Which part of KL is this?", "That clock tower is defo Dataran Merdeka"], ["I wonder how many of the buildings still stand?"]]}
{"title": "Driver refuses to pay RM15 to jaga kereta for public parking space in KL, comes back to a scratched car - paultan.org", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18u37sd/driver_refuses_to_pay_rm15_to_jaga_kereta_for/", "num_comment": 47, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["That's why I drive shit car, people scratch also I won't notice", "Problems solved?", "The scratch mark or the shit on the car?", "Yes"], ["I would park in a legal car park and walk a bit further rather than give money to these kutus. Or use public transport/Grab.\nIf everyone stops giving in to these pests, they'll be starved of their income.\nBut as most Malaysians prefer to take the easy way out, then by all means, go ahead and pay the 15 bucks extortion fee.\nThe problem will always be here because of people willing to pay out of both convenience and fear.", "It happens on legal parking spots too", "You mean double charges, one to the real owner, another to these parasites ?", "Yes, sometime you see those popular places where you can pay just using app. Some asshole will approach you and ask you pay like RM20.\nWhen you say you already paid using app, they say the app is for parking, the RM20 for \"security\".", "motherfuckers..., entrepreneurship and gangsterism makes great enterprise, but wait, that's extortion.", "you called it beautifully", "That\u2019s just a protection racket", "These are legal public parking spots. Usually by day pay using app and night is free but then these mofos come out to extort. Authorities unfortunately also kerja 9-5. This issue has been ongoing for over a decade, be it city centre or suburbs.", "Agree, the authorities should clamp down on this after-hours activity by the parking kutus.", "There was an incident in the past where they got reported and the \u2018collector\u2019 got fined with summons. Now not sure", "They will ask for money on a legal car park too.", "I mean parking inside a building or a closed car park space, not legal street parking.", "From the picture, it's along Jalan Sultan Ismail, next to the Damascus shop. There are VERY limited parking at the back. The nearest \"a bit\" further parking would be Pavilion. Looks like at night and she just wanna grab some food. All the power to you, but it doesn't seem like she have much choice at that given time."], ["Our police is driven by social media. If the news is big enough they will take action. I believe the news will blow up if you catch a person actively damaging your car in full HD."], ["I drive a cheap car but put a nice number plate. Most times they just say oh cantek nombor keta ye. I just walk away pretending not to hear because don't want them to even initiate conversations or ask for money. So far so good it worked to scare them off. I don't mind to pay for valet parking and other proper privately owner car parks but just not to touts or gangster jaga keta."], ["Pay 15 or I scratch your car! Sometimes these fellas are asking for a beating.", "I wonder if we can beat people up who want to damage our property as self defense in the eye of the law.\nLike one dude is approaching my car with a coin, I prevent him from getting near my car but he refused to walk away and so I beat him up to protect my car.", "You versus all 3-4 of them? Good luck Mr Ip Man", "Maybe just take video and call police , nothing good fighting violence with violence. I just hope our abang police will do something", "Ya I once got so mad after he said want to scratch my car for refusing to pay him. I went over to him, moved his chair next to my car. Told him, baik you duk sini jaga keta ku. You pun cari makan aje. Kalo I balik tgk keta Kena gores calar, you tau je la. You org satu jln jgn ingat nak cari mkn kat cni sminggu. Bukannya you org parking berlesen.", "I like this response", "Because depending on the parking lot arrangements, can ask bus kilang to wait and park overnight daily. Force their own hand to call for majlis perbandaran to remove illegal vehicles parked and so on. So eventually they slap their own face. Whoever that operates will come apologise since their own periuk nasi affected. Monthly can be from RM 15k - RM 50k depending on how hot the location is.", "Technically if you send them to hospital, they can\u2019t calar ur car. I hope you\u2019re good at leg kicks lol"], ["One effective way is to not go where such activity happened. This should force the businesses to force the local city council to act because businesses pay for permits to operate.\nIf businesses can co-operate to protect their customers then customers should walk away with their money.\nOr customers just pay for the \"protection\"."], ["go scratch other cars that paid them the rm15", "Berat sama dipikul, ringan sama dijinjing. Right!"], ["Park a tesla. Sacrifice your tesla. The car records 24/7 surround view. Report police with evidence clear as day", "You think the police would actually take action? You sweet summer child.", "Tangkap depan, lepas belakang", "IF police give a crap", "RIP to your tesla 200k. They don't give a rats ass about this petty crime."], ["Get a real job, you bum!"], ["Find the person who did this and do the same to the face"], ["Over at where I stayed, there's a Maybank and also a police station nearby. Walking distance. Park outside Maybank, public parking spot, always got one guy will come and ask for money cos we park there. I asked my dad once that isn't it free? He told me just do it even tho it's Rm1 cos we don't want any trouble as in like causing a fight or whatsoever. And no that fella doesn't jaga parking there cos it's a public parking space to begin with. My dad just say, you just help when you can cos the person that ask for money there is a homeless and sleeps there too.\nThere's also an instance where we went somewhere, open air parking, no sign indicating that it's private and have to pay to park. Right after we exit the car, a guy approached us and ask for Rm5 and said it's for parking. We paid and as we were walking off, my dad told me this one jaga parking but illegal. He said he'll pay once and no more. It's better to pay this once than not paying and walk away. My dad is a one time bad experience and no more next time kind of guy.", "i don't understand this at all", "Pay once to save you the trouble and just don't go back there to put yourself back into the same situation knowing it's gonna happen. If you don't wanna pay, get back into your car and leave.", "Thanks for the tl;dr"], ["If you can afford it go take a taxi/e-taxi.", "Your brain is like your username", "Take the train lah. It's in Bukit Bintang after all."], ["It appears they are learning from Indonesia"], ["Freaking hate these thugs, too bad it's scary for a female driver to not give in when you drove across town for half an hour for an appointment and found out when you already there. I pray that they go to hell"], ["They\u2019re here to stay. Just pay them, Grab over or stay home."]]}
{"title": "Police to probe RM700mil spent on govt publicity since 2020", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18uhotn/police_to_probe_rm700mil_spent_on_govt_publicity/", "num_comment": 1, "flairlabel": [], "header": "", "comments": [["Won't be surprised if this one gets swept under the carpet as well."]]}
{"title": "Do mixed Malaysians question their cultural identity?", "href": "/r/malaysia/comments/18ueimt/do_mixed_malaysians_question_their_cultural/", "num_comment": 37, "flairlabel": ["Culture"], "header": "Hello fellow monyets,\nFor context, I'm half Sarawakian and half Chinese.\nBecause of this, I'm not really sure how to label myself. Ever since I moved to semenanjung, you're somewhat forced to be one or the other. So I get confused on whether I should embrace my Sarawakian identity or Chinese identity. Its significantly harder for me to embrace the Chinese side of me since I'm both a banana and a Muslim at the same time, so I tend to tell people I'm Sarawakian instead. I feel bad for it tho, its as if I'm abandoning my mother's roots.\nDo you fellow mixed race monyets feel the same?", "comments": [["You are seriously confused dude, what do you mean mixed sarawakian & chinese? Sarawak is a state, not a race. Malay, melanau, kayan, kenyah, iban is all sarawakian", "melanau, i say sarawakian because the majority of people in semenanjung dont know anything about our races. Force of habit sorry HAHAHAHA"], ["For me, I just tell everyone I'm Malaysian. I don't care if they want to identify me as \"Chinese\", but that's not who I am. I just so happen to practice Chinese culture and speak the language.\nMy parents and grandparents are born Malaysian, so I'm not exactly abandoning my roots despite them claiming otherwise."], ["Sarawak melayu ke?\nMy cousins are half chinese half sarawakian melayu too and both live outside of Sarawak.\nOne is very devout and has beard and wear kopiah most times. No one ever assumes he is not Malay so he just tells people he is half Chinese from Sarawak.\nThe other is more modern, clean shaven etc. He looks more ambiguous so he tells people he chinese malay mix from sarawak.\nThey both can't speak much mandarin too, but they own it anyway.\nThe more modern one insisted on having his given Chinese name (not on ic) on his business cards because he reckons its a great ice breaker.\nAnd when the devout one got married to a malay lady he also did all the Chinese Rituals with gusto. It was pretty endearing watching his wife get kitted out in a full length kua and had the gold hair accessories pinned through her tudung.\nSo...\nNo need to abandon anything, and just embrace it and say you're Malay Chinese mix from Sarawak.\nIf they ask why you cannot speak mandarin just say cause my chinese family all banana too haha. Gen z and alpha chinese kids in Kuching are all bananas anyway man.", "That only can happen Sarawak, if it happens in a semanjung the jakim will show up and give saman.", "what the hell are you even talking about?"], ["As a KL Chinese, I don't see any point in East Malaysians denying that they're East Malaysians. East Malaysians' lifestyle and culture are so different from Semenanjung that we're really two different countries who share the same flag.\nAin't no way two communities separated by a fucking sea will ever feel like they're 'one' culture."], ["You can mix and match"], ["There are Chinese Muslims waaaay longer than Malay Muslims"], ["I call myself rojak and just leave it at that. No point overthinking it as it will just stress me out already I\u2019m living with identity crisis since forever"], ["Lol everyone dunking on you in the comments for the Chinese / Sarawakian culture must not be an East Msian. It's true that Sarawakian isn't an ethnicity, but we East Malaysians do have a distinctly different culture??? compared to West Malaysians.\nIn peninsula, I feel like people identify as their race before they identify as a Selangorian (etc)/Malaysian.\nWhile East Malaysians in peninsula identify as Sarawakian/Sabahan. (Not all la, but speaking from my own experience and fellow East Msian friends' experience)\nEven my Sabahan pure Chinese friend, feels that she identifies more with fellow Sabahans than peninsula Chinese\nSo that's why you're feeling confused lol. It's not really race, it's the West Msia vs East Msia divide."], ["i said sarawakian in general out of habit, because most semenanjung people don't know much about sarawakian races\nto clarify, i am melanau, so stop scolding me pls :(", "Chinese = 1 billion world wide\nMelanau = 100k\nPreserve your Melanau culture first but never forget your Chinese root"], ["Chindian here. No confusion for me personally, just emotional baggage when it comes to elements of both cultures that I can't fucking stand. I basically just sit on the fence and not pick a side, and I haven't really felt a need to identify more with a specific side either."], ["Yes I'm mixed sperm and ovum."], ["I\u2019m fully Chinese but don\u2019t speak Mandarin and my peers make me question my cultural identity.\nI think it\u2019s less of a race thing and more of the people around you that made you feel like you are less of something just because you are lacking some arbitrary feature."], ["who cares? why do you give a fuck what other people think? cultural identity is relative, it only has power if you re desperate to fit in and thus put a lot of weight on what \"X\" society thinks. but if you live your live on your own terms, then what they think don't matter."], ["celup aja."], ["TIL Sarawakian is a race"], ["Just call yourself a Chiwakian."], ["That means you\u2019re local Chinese lah! As Malaysian Chinese, we have our own identity:\nNo allegiances to China or Taiwan, Malaysia only.\nLel why shouldnt you speak the national language\nSpeak your Fuzhounese or Hokkien etc too, we are not of northern Chinese stock (wait shit some sabahan chinese are northern Chinese fuck the north)\nok whatever imma sleep :p"], ["Chinese-Indian-Jewish hybrid here. No, I do not question my cultural identity. I grew up surrounded by mainly Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish cultures (I speak Mandarin and Yiddish). Barely any Indian. Hence, these two are the ones I identify with. Period. No confusion."], ["Lol you and me same brother. I'm a Chinese Muslim embracing the Chinese side more. Marriage is still a difficult issue I'm trying to figure out, as I prefer nons/chinese and don't agree with force conversion."], ["Just say you are mix (peranakan). Oyemji we unlock new peranakan keee"], ["I Baba + Nyonya = mixed or not?"], ["So long you\u2019re rich people don\u2019t care"], ["I guess I'm Selangor-ian and Chinese. Now I'm confused of my identity too."], ["You are sumandak. You don't take any side. Full stop."], ["Spare a thought for the people who live in parts of the country where it was multiracial since very long ago, like some places in Melaka.\nMy grandparents were already pre-mixed, and we generally identified ourselves with the culture we grew up in, Malay. If someone asks if I have any other ancestry because of my deviant physical traits from standard Malay, I don\u2019t deny.\nUltimately, beyond it being a nice little trivia, who cares?(Malaysians do, coz we a racist lot). My parents and grandparents raised me the best way they could, and if being in a monoculture setting is a part of that, I embrace that too.\nOn the flip side, me and a Malaysian Chinese colleague met a Filipino when traveling, and he was spiritedly talking up how he is partially Chinese to him, which annoyed my buddy a little: He only speaks English/Tagalog, and doesn\u2019t really show any common Chinese cultural traits.\nIf it means something to you, celebrate it, if not, then don\u2019t. It\u2019s your right, and no one should guilt you over this."], ["i just tell them what\u2019s on my IC"], ["I am a mix of Melayu and Melanau with a bit of Iban and Chinese ancestry,I identify myself with the culture I'm usually surrounded with as a child which is a Melanau community.So I identify myself more as a Melanau even though my IC says Melayu"], ["In Sabah, just call yourself Sino - provided one of your parents is of Sabah Native heritage"], ["I'm a 40yo half Malay, quater Chinese and quater French that grew up in Terengganu. I identify as Malay I guess since I grew up in kampung but when I moved to KL I just told people I'm Malaysian because no one could ever guess what I was"], ["It's simple you're a semen."], ["Embrace both sides.\n[1] The one main advantage we have as Malaysians is that we actually have a proper Chinese language education. That means our general grasp of the language (in a systematic educational sense) is better than many nations that have Chinese ethnic descents, thus giving you a clear advantage if you learned it and find an international job with a relevant requirement.\n[2] This is on top of having Malay as national language, which if you're already fluent potentially makes Indonesian somewhat comprehensible, and even if you're not familiar will quickly pick up on it.\n[3] Then we're a Commonwealth country, so English is a natural part of our societal fabric. Why would you not learn the language that's also usable with everyone by default from Korea/Japan to African and South America?\nI could also say something similar about Tamil, but I know little of the language and I'm barely aware the Tamil we have here may not necessarily be usable across India. I might be wrong.\nArguing about languages and culture is one of the stupidest things some Malaysians do and it's nauseating to see a lot more of it here recently. Why pick sides when you can take advantage of everything available and make you an international asset?"]]}